Central bankers do this all the time. They are unelected. They lie. They are largely unaccountable. And they control the levers of monetary policy that, if mism

Central bankers do this all the time. They are unelected. They lie. They are largely unaccountable. And they control the levers of monetary policy that, if mismanaged (which is more than often true) results in a pernicious stealth tax on the wider economy. And this all in so-called modern Western democracies.