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by paganel 1255 days ago
If they knew it they certainly kept it to themselves. Like I said, it wasn’t until 2008 or shortly after that when King acknowledged it out loud.
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Funny that, because I distinctly remember participating in an early 2000s competition the Bank of England organised for schoolkids to teach us about monetary policy. Of course, that didn't exactly guarantee participants a graduate-level understanding even if their team got through the first round, but it's not exactly the action of an entity that's trying to hide what they do!

Maybe people not understanding the mechanics of complicated things isn't actually the result of a conspiracy to stop them from understanding complicated things. Perhaps they'd also be somewhat more likely to understand how complicated things work if they didn't start from the premise that the people who know how they work are inherently untrustworthy...