Newsmaker: Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the People's Bank of China
There's a Catch-22 confronting Zhou Xiaochuan. To defend the yuan from rapid depreciation, China's central bank chief is having to intervene to buy yuan and sell dollars, drying up liquidity in the banking system.
That's a brake on growth that leads to more downside pressure on the currency, increasing the need to intervene in the foreign-exchange market, draining liquidity anew. And on it goes.
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