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The government succumbed and removed the chief minister and his cabinet, placing the troubled province under the care of the provincial governor.
The current governor will likely block any construction to relocate a base on the island, exercising a de facto veto, particularly with the gubernatorial election due in late November.
Only by equivocating about the relocation plan could Kan appease both the governor and US President Barack Obama, who is scheduled to meet Kan in Tokyo the same month.
A new central bank governor also should be named, with the first order of business being to float the exchange rate.
We won the election, but I lost my own race for a parliamentary seat and was sent off to Hong Kong as the colony’s last British governor.
The choice of his economic team is crucial, because he plans to replace the respected finance minister, Pedro Malan, and the governor of the Central Bank, Arminio Fraga.
One of their priorities is to attack the central bank and slander its governor, Leszek Balcerowicz, the iconic father of Poland’s economic transformation, with accusations that echo those of the Stalinist era.
If Florida is devastated by a hurricane, its governor would only make matters worse if he responded by abandoning trade with other states.
Worse, according to an aide to the state governor, the “government has no credible information yet as to whether any of the schoolgirls were taken hostage by the terrorists.”
With Romney the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee for the 2012 presidential election, few Republicans would be able to vote against what was their candidate’s signature legislative initiative as governor.
Another Fed governor, Jeremy Stein, has pointed out that foreign banks have dollar liabilities of roughly $8 trillion, much of it short-term wholesale funding.
“No one even tried to save us,” they wailed to Putin, who was accompanied by the regional governor, Valery Shantsev.
Like all other Russian governors, he was not elected by those who live in his region (before becoming governor, he was Luzhkov’s deputy).
Now that he is gone, one can only hope that Modi and his government ensure that the next RBI governor is of comparable caliber, with the capability – and independence – to uphold the institution’s credibility through decisive action.
The public sector accounts for roughly 80% of the economy, and relies mostly on now-plummeting oil revenue, while Iranian banks face a credit crisis, with Mahmoud Bahmani, the governor of the Iran Central Bank, estimating total delinquent payments to be $38 billion.
Otherwise, according to Zhou Xiaochuan, the governor of the People’s Bank of China, the country might face a “Minsky moment,” in which excessive optimism and debt-financed investment culminate in financial crisis.
Standing up to politicians may not be easy for central bankers, not least because, in many countries (including China, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan), the central bank’s governor is due to be replaced or reappointed in the coming months.
Last month, when the governor of China’s Hubei province threatened a journalist and grabbed her recorder after she asked a question about a local scandal, journalists, lawyers, and academics used the Internet to object.
The grandson of tribal chiefs and son of a provincial governor in the British colony of Gold Coast (now Ghana), Annan blended an aristocratic style of leadership with soft-spoken personal charm, empathy, intellectual gravitas, and sartorial elegance.
Probably no other state governor has the political clout to win against the tide of activists who regard offering an undocumented immigrant a driver’s license as tantamount to offering them work, which they already have, and legitimacy, which they apparently don’t need to work.
Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, is not married to his partner, the domesticity guru Sandra Lee, and no one seems to care.
While global action remained stalled on capping emissions, environmental groups and concerned citizens successfully pushed for the plan over the opposition of business groups, and the state’s Republican governor at the time, Arnold Schwarzenegger, signed it into law in 2006.
Once it became clear that his gambit would fail, Obasanjo found a compromise: he named a man he trusted, Yar’Adua, a little-known northern governor and devout Muslim, as his preferred successor.
For foreign investors, the greatest near-term concern may be a broad range of attacks from parliament and some of Yar’Adua’s economic advisors on Charles Soludo, the central bank governor, who is widely credited for Nigeria’s improved economic performance in the past several years.
Just last month, President Petro Poroshenko sacked the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, the billionaire tycoon Igor KolomoiskyMore recently, the authorities have been working to reform the energy sector – a hub of corruption.
California’s governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, was an immigrant (from Austria) before he was a movie star.
When George W. Bush was governor, a federal judge ruled that the state's entire penal system was pervaded by a "culture of sadistic and malicious violence."
As Mervyn King, the former governor of the Bank of England, put it, “Our understanding of the economy is incomplete and constantly evolving….To describe monetary policy in terms of a constant rule derived from a known model of the economy is to ignore this process of learning.”
In his important new book, Unelected Power: The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking and the Regulatory State, Paul Tucker, a former deputy governor of the Bank of England, traces this story and its implications more deeply.
By contrast, in late August, the ECB’s governor, Jean-Claude Trichet, referred to the monetary-policy decision taken before the crisis to justify the possibility of a rate hike, then left rates on hold.
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