About: robert

Robert Pringle is founder and chairman of Central Banking Publications, a financial publisher specialising in public policy and financial markets. Central Banking journal, which he has edited for 20 years, has subscribers in 120 countries including the great majority of the world’s central banks.

Recent Posts by robert

2. For and against reform

What are the forces favouring reform – and those obstructing it? Natural development: There is a natural tendency for a dominant currency to emerge as the de facto global currency. The US dollar has served that purpose and inertia keeps it in the leading place. But It is in the interests of the US…
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Written on April 3, 2014 at 9:26 am
Categories: Banking, Homepage, Official Money, RP's Diary, The Ikon
Tags: banking, financial crisis, globalization, International Monetary System

3. New models for banking and international money

We need radical new models of international money as well as global banking and finance. The underlying purposes are to re-connect finance with the real world and to put individual responsibility and risk-bearing capacity back at the centre of the system. There is an important role for governments, which must agree and set…
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Written on April 3, 2014 at 9:12 am
Categories: Banking, Homepage, Official Money, RP's Diary, The Ikon

Encounters with Paul Volcker and Jacques de Larosière

This month I have enjoyed wonderful conversations with three elder statesman of international finance and economic policy – Paul Volcker, Jacques de Larosière and Allan Meltzer. They all agreed on one big thing – much of what has gone wrong is down to the absence of a proper international monetary system. This is a…
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Written on March 23, 2014 at 5:53 pm
Categories: Homepage, News and Comment, Official Money, RP's Diary
Tags: Bretton Woods, central banking, financial crisis, global financial system, Jacques de Larosiere, Paul Volcker, robert pringle, The Money Trap

A Debate with Allan Meltzer (Part 1)

Professor Allan Meltzer debates international monetary issues and The Money Trap with Robert Pringle On 3/14/2014 12:57 PM, Robert Pringle wrote: Allan, Thinking further about the international monetary system, I now find it difficult to conceive monetary stability being established in one country alone – even if that country is the US. This…
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Written on March 22, 2014 at 6:24 pm
Categories: Homepage, Official Money, RP's Diary
Tags: Allan Meltzer, Bretton Woods, central banks, financial crisis, global financial system, IMF, International Monetary System, Jacques de Larosiere, Paul Volcker, The Money Trap, US

A Debate with Allan Meltzer (Part II)

On 15 March, 2014, at 22.24 Robert Pringle wrote: WHAT WE AGREE ON It is necessary to agree on many things to have a useful discussion, and it is not surprising we do as my thinking has been much influenced by yours for many years. In a sense I am trying to reconcile my understanding…
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Written on March 22, 2014 at 6:13 pm
Categories: Homepage, Official Money, RP's Diary
Tags: Allan Meltzer, Bretton Woods, central banking, financial crisis, globalization, IMF, International Monetary System, Jacques de Larosiere, The Money Trap