What is less clear is the central bank chairman's thinking about the forces that are driving him to tighten monetary policy.

A Federal jury today acquitted a Yugoslav diplomat and a bank chairman of conspiring to launder nearly $3.5 million.

"The Cardinals have never won a pennant without a good second baseman," said another member of the new owners group, Andrew Baur, a bank chairman.

In other words, I don't think the central bank chairman should get in the business of signing off on tax cuts.

According to the bank's central security manager, the bank chairman's goal is for all business units to have favorable ratings (4 or 5) in both categories.

Low oil prices, on the other side, are kind of a central bank chairman's Christmas present.

They are being conducted at the top level, with most of the bank chairmen and the finance minister of Mexico and his chief negotiator present.

"The danger of another debt crisis is less if the projects are of good quality," Miguel Mancera, Mexico's central bank chairman, said.

Over the course of the scandal the authorities brought 137 indictments against 211 bankers, including five men who were bank chairmen.

In Mexico City two years ago, the family of a bank chairman paid an estimated $30 million ransom for his release.