Since Masaru Hayami, the bank's governor, has so clearly failed in his main task of ensuring price stability, he should be sacked.

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Why should Eriksson be sacked for lying (if indeed he did) when it has become clear that his bosses have hardly been playing things by the book?

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He sacked a few police officers and said that airport managers should be held responsible.

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