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Radical Uncertainty - Mervyn King

The Joe Walker Podcast

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Ben Benanke and Jim Peturba

Mervyn was teaching at MIT with Ben Benanke who would go on to become the chair of the Federal Reserve in the United States. Did either of you have any inkling that you would be head of the central banks? Mervyn: "It's a great shame that we didn't together go to a local bookmaker and try and place a hundred thousand dollars or something"

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