Abuses of “creative finance”. The EU is calling for better management of the world financial system (see following pages). Domestically, consensus is forming. Statements that the over-valuation of the euro was the cause of all the evils and that checking inflation should not be a priority are no longer taken seriously. If one ignores a handful of populists, it is generally accepted that inflation is the most unfair of taxes because it hits the poor far more than the rich, and is the main...