No rhyme or reason to Trichet’s stance
Jean-Claude Trichet is an engineer by pedigree, an economist by profession and a poet (or scholar of poetry, at least) by passion.
“Currencies are like poetry,” he wrote last year. “Like a haiku poem created 500 years ago, a gold coin continues to exist as it was minted.” It “keeps its value over time”. If Trichet does address the banking inquiry in some form, he is likely to roll out a few more literary references. At a previous address in Dublin in 2009, he quoted ...
