banker's ramp

plural banker's ramps

1. UKgovernmentAn economic crisis engineered by bankers for political ends.

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

   1990, Randall Bennett Woods, A Changing of the Guard: Anglo-American Relations, 1941-1946, page 409

   1 more example

   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”!'

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