October 01, 2016

A good slogan for any candidate would be: “Make the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, Free and Brave again”

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Sir, I refer to Gillian Tett’s discussion on the importance in politics of good slogans “ Make slogans great again ” October 1. I do no...

More safer drones now- less risky feet on the ground. That’s great for now… but what about tomorrow?

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Sir, Simon Kuper writes: “Every society tries to make the trade-off between security and freedom… According to Google, mentions of “freedom...
September 30, 2016

More than tighter or looser, what EU needs are capital requirements that distort less the allocation of bank credit

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Sir, I refer to Jim Brunsden’s “ EU set to resist tighter capital requirements” September 30. EU (and all other) needs to decide what’...
September 29, 2016

How much should we claw-back from inept bank regulators who neglected their fiduciary responsibilities?G

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Sir, Gillian Tett writes: “If bankers are going to defend their craft, let alone their high pay, they have to start truly sharing risks wit...

Millions of small loans not given to “risky” SMEs, only because of bank regulations, endangers our social stability

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Sir, Mohamed El-Erian writes: “for things to continue as they are, you need to be confident that the economic, financial, political and soc...

How could regulators, and FT, believe that banks, if given the chance, would not to try to minimize capital?

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Sir you write: “At present, large banks are allowed to use their own internal models to calculate risk-weighted assets — a crucial measure ...

For regulators to impose risk weights is antithetical to the American principle of treating all citizens equally.

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Sir, Judy Shelton writes: “The Fed has adopted monetary policy decisions that channel low-cost funding to wealthy investors and corporate b...
September 28, 2016

What if ideas on more productivity were evaluated strictly based on the CVs of those originating these?

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Sir, I refer to Sarah O’Connor’s “ Want your staff to do more? Just listen to them ”, September 28. Let us suppose you are sitting arou...

Is there no moral issue in Venezuela bondholders being paid as a result of people being denied food or medicines?

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Sir, Jonathan Wheatley writes: “In a broad sense, Caracas is already a serial defaulter. It has defaulted on its people by denying them acc...

Martin Wolf, bank regulators ordered trust to crumble, so the west is already falling. Your silence is complicit

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Sir, Martin Wolf lashes out at the possibilities of Donald Trump being elected president of US and on its consequences. I agree though I wo...

Is now OECD blaming central bankers? Has it no shame? OECD is just as guilty.

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Sir, William White, the chair of the OECD’s economic and development review committee tells us “ Only government action can resolve a globa...
September 26, 2016

The absurdity of Mario Draghi’s leadership is even worse when considering his close connection to bank regulations

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Sir, Wolfgang Kuhn writes: “Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank, relies on ban...
September 25, 2016

Anything that might weaken the future real economy, destroys pensions which depend more on tomorrows than on todays

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Sir, Tim Harford argues “it’s far from clear that the Bank really is destroying pensions. It is true that low interest rates make future ob...

Could Gillian Tett possibly find something positive in removing the incentives for banks to lend to SMEs and entrepreneurs?

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Sir, Gillian Tett, discussing whether to have or not to have bins, as these could be used by terrorists writes: “Losing them shows …– that ...
September 24, 2016

Not only criminals and tax-evaders, but also ordinary people can be against restrictions on cash.

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Sir, referring to how the existence of cash creates difficulties for central banks imposing negative interests. you mention “economist Kenn...

Central banks that only want banks to harvest what’s “safe” and not sow what’s “risky”, do not deserve any credibility

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Sir, you write “central banks have resorted to ever more ingenious methods to convince a sceptical public that they still have the ability ...
September 23, 2016

Truth is that all in the Fed behave less like doves, and much more like statist hawks

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Sir, Sam Fleming writes: Federal Reserve once again held short-term interest rates unchanged… a victory for doves… Even if they concede a q...

ECB and other statist still believe the way to a better future is lowering the debt costs of governments.

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Sir, Claire Jones writes: “Altering the capital key rule would relieve banks [ECB] of the need to buy as many German Bunds as at present an...

Portugal might need everything to be perceived as risky, so as to stop the regulatory distortions of bank credit

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Sir, Peter Wise mentions a “crucial ruling by Canadian rating agency DBRS next month on Portugal’s only investment-grade credit rating.” “ ...
September 22, 2016

As banks “pressure employees to hawk products”, regulators pressure banks to odiously discriminate against the risky

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Sir, John Gapper writes about “the intense pressure Wells Fargo placed on employees to hawk products” “ Wells Fargo reaches the end of its ...
September 21, 2016

The German banks overextension to the shipping industry represents a great opportunity for investigative journalism.

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Sir, James Shotter writes: “Before the financial crisis, lending to the shipping industry was big business for many German banks. [Now] how...

US, when will senators, like Elizabeth Warren, grill bank regulators with the same gusto they grill ban​k​sters?

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Sir, I refer to Barney Jopson and Alistair Grays report on how John Stumpf was grilled in the Congress Wells Fargo clear misbehavior “ Well...
September 19, 2016

Senator Elizabeth Warren, what about the staggering bad bank regulations that came out of the Basel Committee?

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Sir, Patrick Jenkins writes: “Today, Mr Stumpf will face an inquisition at the Senate banking committee. It promises to be a hostile experi...

Mario Draghi is one of those who decided to put a stop on the egalitarian forces of bank credit, decreeing inequality.

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Sir, Motoko Aizawa and Daniel Bradlow write: “Quantitative easing, by raising asset prices, has disproportionately benefited the wealthy, t...

Global and local inequality is much driven by dumb bank regulations. World Bank and IMF should do something about i

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Sir, Branco Milanovic, with respect to “global inequality” writes: “While for national statistics and inequality measures, there is at leas...

Lucy Kellaway, how should guilty bank regulators apologize and be held accountable?

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Sir, I refer to Lucy Kellaway’s “ Wells Fargo’s wagonload of insincere regrets” September 17, only in order to ask her a question. Her...
September 17, 2016

This would be my brief testimony about what caused the 2008 bank crisis… if ever allowed

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Sir, John Authers writes: “This week, Senator Elizabeth Warren, said the next president should reopen investigations into senior bankers wh...
September 16, 2016

Free market capitalism with regulatory controls on the free flow of bank credit, is an oxymoron

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Sir, I am not discussing here Margrethe Vestager’s, the European Commission’s competition chief dec...