banker's ramp

English

Noun

banker's ramp (plural banker's ramps)

1. (UK, politics) An economic crisis engineered by bankers for political ends.
   • 1990, Randall Bennett Woods, A Changing of the Guard: Anglo-American Relations, 1941-1946, page 409:

     The commissions paid on this transaction were high and gave rise to grumblings in Great Britain about a “banker's ramp.”

   • 2020, Harold James, Making a Modern Central Bank: The Bank of England 1979–2003, page 410:

     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”!'