Central bankers are a taciturn bunch.
With fortunes to be made or lost based on how accurately their monetary policy decisions can be forecast, they should be. Indeed - although that might have gotten the poor fellows involved in competing territorial claims. Of course, studied silence and secrecy can also be fine covers for disagreement or lack of convincing solutions to pressing problems. We strongly suspect that in case of the 17 governors' get-together it was a bit of both. But what all central bankers, with the possible exception of America's Alan Greenspan, seem to have in common is an undue focus on financial issues in world economic affairs.