“…..What is it about central bankers who wait to tell the truth only after they have quit their post. First it was the maestro himself, the Fed’s Alan Greenspan (most recently in “Greenspan’s Stunning Admission: “Gold Is Currency; No Fiat Currency, Including the Dollar, Can Match It”), and now it is the Bank of England’s former head, Mervyn King, who yesterday told an audience at the LSE that “more monetary stimulus will not help the world economy return to strong growth.” That this is happening just as we learn that in one year the world’s 1% will collectively own more wealth than the rest of the world combined, and two days before Goldman’s Mario Draghi unleashed up to €1 trillion (if not unlimited) in QE, is hardly as surprise, and will be surely ignored by everyone until the inevitable outcome of another “French revolution” finally arrives……” (hier)