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Mervyn King reveals his guru: an obscure US economist with big ideas

Laurence Kotlikoff From The Times By Suzy Jagger

Published 28 January 2010

Everyone needs a guru, even the Governor of the Bank of England. When Mervyn King mentioned him by name three times during evidence on the future of Britain’s banking sector, MPs were left scratching their heads over the identity of a little-known American economist who, it appears, has been bending the Governor’s ear. The owlish Mr King, it emerges, has become a keen advocate of the radical ideas of Laurence Kotlikoff, an American professor of…