Who would be a central banker in 2023?

The men and women in the hot seats at central banks have had it relatively easy in 2022. They would probably disagree but, as inflation rose to the highest levels in 40 years on both sides of the Atlantic, there was always someone else or some other thing that could credibly be blamed.

Whether it was Vladimir Putin’s weaponisation of gas and oil supplies, the Trump and Biden administrations’ overgenerous support to US households, a…