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banker's ramp en · NOUN
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(UK) An economic crisis engineered by bankers for political ends.
But over the course of the last weekend before the 1997 election, Brown concluded, 'What a release an independent Bank of England would be – a release from a “banker's ramp”!'
2020, Harold James, Making a Modern Central Bank: The Bank of England 1979–2003, page 410:The commissions paid on this transaction were high and gave rise to grumblings in Great Britain about a “banker's ramp.”
1990, Randall Bennett Woods, A Changing of the Guard: Anglo-American Relations, 1941-1946, page 409:
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