During the lowest point of the bank crisis, I asked my dad what I should do to protect my finances.
But the Treasury and the Bank of England both point out that Sir Mervyn is a fully paid-up member of a staggeringly generous Bank of England pension scheme.
It's not clear, on an early reading of the report, how much point there remains in Royal Bank of Scotland continuing to operate an investment bank alongside its commercial and retail arms.
At that point, the Bank of Greece would have to impose capital controls, and everybody who has euros in a Greek bank account would have to keep them there and see them devalued on euro exit.
And, perhaps most important from the World Bank's point of view, how can foreign countries, international aid agencies and the Bank itself help bolster developing countries' institutions?
As well as finding ways to improve the flow of capital for firms, the CBI's 10-point plan includes saying the Bank of England should act as insurer of last resort on a temporary basis for firms.
What they have in common: An employee went out of his or her way to help me (albeit, in the case of the bank, at the point where I was contemplating closing all of my accounts).
The LTCB is a case in point: despite rumors of the bank's imminent collapse, the government so far has not publicized the scope of the bank's problems.
The pressure from regulators was so strong at one point last fall that Bank of America stalled foreclosures in order to re-examine the way it was handling the process.
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That moment of blinding revelation, that banks need to raise capital to protect themselves against losses, is the point at which the Bank of England and other similar central banks can no longer provide the kind of loans I have described.
In 1996, when I started out and told people I was going to change the strategy of the World Bank, at a point when I was virtually being kicked out of the organization, people told me that this was absurd.
The Bank of England predicted that the extra bank holidays in June might knock half of a percentage point off the quarterly growth figure.
From both a policymaker's and a bank's point of view, says Sun-bae Kim, regional economist at Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong, going after the consumer makes sense.
However, at what seemed to be the tipping point of his career at the big bank, he surprised everyone by quitting his job to take up a position in a small Southeast Asian bank.
This could encourage workers to pass up potential job opportunities. (It could also encourage people to register as unemployed, without affecting underlying labour supply.) Most studies suggest that the extensions can be blamed for an increase in the unemployment rate of about a percentage point, although a new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco says the effect is much smaller, just 0.4 percentage points.
"From a strategic point of view, the logic of a deal looks indisputable, " Deutsche Bank analyst Marc Greenberg wrote in a note to investors.
For now, the market seemingly has taken a 25-basis-point rate cut by the Reserve Bank of India last month positively, analysts said.
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He added that the governor had, at one point, been opposed to the idea of the Bank becoming a super-regulator.
That bank branch now makes a point of hiring a mix of ages for their tellers, and has the highest customer satisfaction rating in the country.
There is a danger that at some point a big commercial bank will run out of the collateral or assets needed for emergency borrowing from the European Central Bank or its relevant national central bank.
In reality the central bank will point to recent pockets of positive economic news, already low yields, which would arguably mitigate much of any lead they might take to encourage borrowing and might even spin the positive impact of the U.S. credit-rating downgrade.
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If you've targeted a particular growth rate of cash GDP and the economy has not reached that rate, over a sustained period, the point of cash GDP targets is that the central bank is not supposed to just forget about those failures and look to the future - as the Bank of England has done with the inflation target.
The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee cut the Bank rate by half a percentage point to 4.5% in a surprise move last Wednesday.
Europe is on a tipping point with rooftop solar, according to the Union of Bank of Switzerland.
Since 2006, the year the World Bank report takes as the starting point of piracy, exports of fish products from piracy-hit countries have declined by 23.8%.
Other analysts, such as Santiago Levy, a former Mexican official now at the Inter-American Development Bank, point out that a fund of that kind might undermine the incentives for firms and workers to go legal.
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One of the great figures of global central banking, Jean-Claude Trichet - president of the European Central Bank during many of the euro's formative years - made a similar point.
He accused Blair of taking money from the bank JP Morgan for the invasion of Iraq, a charge Blair made a point of denying once the protester was removed.
And although that might be a great thing from the point of view of the ethical standing of the banking system, it is never nice or easy for any bank to see a vast amount of cash walking out the door - especially since, as I mentioned earlier, that can increase its dependence on emergency replacement finance from the European Central Bank.
All nine members of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee voted for this month's half-point emergency cut in rates to 4.5% because of a "sharp deterioration" in the UK's economic prospects, according to minutes of the meeting.
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