Inside Economics: After Nearly Seven Months, We Have a Replacement for Adrian Orr

Inside Economics: After nearly seven months, we have a replacement for Adrian Orr

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New Zealand's Central Bank Loses Its Head as Adrian Orr Suddenly Resigns

Article for Central Banking magazine on Orr/Quigley/Willis saga, and lessons

A couple of weeks ago the editor of Central Banking magazine (something of an house journal for central bankers, and for whom I’ve done book reviews for some years) invited me to write a fairly full article for a non-NZ audience on the extraordinary events of recent months. Having been so caught up in the unfolding detail, writing something like that proved to be a useful discipline, trying to stand back just a little and tell a story. I wrote w…