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Tim Congdon CBE was a member of the Treasury Panel of Independent Forecasters (the so-called “wise men”) between 1992 and 1997, which advised the Chancellor of the Exchequer on economic policy. He founded Lombard Street Research, one of the City of London’s leading economic research consultancies, in 1989, and was its Managing Director from 1989 to 2001 and its Chief Economist from 2001 to 2005. He is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the London School of Economics. He has published widely on monetary policy. He is currently writing another book on Money in a Modern Economy.