Last week, two senior Washington officials — Timothy F. Geithner, the Treasury secretary, and Gary Gensler, the head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission — testified before Congress about the scandal surrounding , the benchmark for global interest rates.
No great revelations were forthcoming.
As we await the full story, it’s worth remembering how Libor, the London interbank offered rate, became the world standard to begin with.
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