Writing again for the Canadian magazine Macleans, sometime GATA researcher Andrew Hepburn argues that it wouldn't have been so odd for the Bank of England to intervene surreptitiously with the LIBOR interest rate reports of Barclays Bank, since central banks lately have been intervening, both openly and surreptitously, all over the place, and since academic rationales for more and more market rigging by central banks are gaining respectability. Hepburn's commentary is headlined "Why the Idea of the Bank of England Tampering with LIBOR Isn't as Crazy as You Think" and it's posted at Macleans here:

http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/07/23/why-the-idea-of-the-bank-of-england-t...