I am very pleased to be here among an audience of professional economists, which is certainly preferable to appearing before an audience of unprofessional economists. I like your kind! Your talents are needed now more than ever as we try to put the tools of the economic profession to work for the common good.
Alan Bollard: The role of banks in the economy  improving the performance of the New Zealand banking system after the global financial crisis Speech by Dr Alan Bollard, Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, to the New Zealand Shareholders Association Annual Meeting, Tauranga, 6 August 2011.