Mr King says it is all down to "rules of thumb" concerning the likely level of inflation. "it is easier to control inflation if the public has the same rule of thumb as the central bank."

史蒂芬•金认为对合适通胀水平的判断完全依赖于“经验法则”，他说“如果公众和央行有着相同的经验法则，那么控制通胀将变得更容易。”

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Mr King once aspired to making central banking boring; John Maynard Keynes hoped economists might become humble technicians, like dentists.

金先生曾渴望让央行的工作变得无聊；约翰·梅纳德凯恩斯则希望经济学家有可能变为谦逊的技术人员，就好像牙医。

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With GDP still shrinking in the third quarter of this year, Mervyn king, the central bank's governor, said he had an "open mind" about expanding the central bank's programme of quantitative easing.

尽管今年第三季度的GDP仍在减少，央行主管Mervyn King称其对央行量化宽松政策的扩展持乐观态度。

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Redknapp, meanwhile, has revealed the club will abandon their usual policy of allowing injury-prone central defender Ledley King to skip intensive training, and, instead, push the England international hard over the next two weeks.

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Mervyn King, the central bank's governor, was lambasted for not intervening sooner, but he told members of parliament that he had been thwarted by a mix of British and European law.

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It will be located in the King's Cross Central development, which sits on a former fish, coal and grain goods yard and spans 67 acres.

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