Maybe Charles Goodhart, who switched from hawk to dove earlier this year, switched back.

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Charles Goodhart, a member of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee, presented a controversial paper on asset prices at a Eurostat conference this week.

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Next month two of its members, Mr Buiter and Charles Goodhart, will be replaced by Steve Nickell, a professor at the London School of Economics, and Christopher Allsopp, an Oxford don.

ECONOMIST: The economy

And Charles Goodhart, a former MPC member, told Today presenter Evan Davis that higher commodity prices and a planned rise in the VAT rate "might make the inflation figures over the early winter pretty poor".

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Which is why the economist Charles Goodhart has devised the useful concept of "subsidiary sovereign bonds", to describe the debt issued by any individual sovereign member of a currency union, such as Spain, Italy or Germany, and why he argues that subsidiary sovereign bonds are inferior to fully sovereign debt.

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