Tea with FT

Having been an Executive Director of the World Bank I know that the columnists of the Financial Times have more voice than what we ever had, and therefore they also need some checks-and-balances.

Currently though, I have been declared a persona non grata by its editor.

Would the child who shouted out “the Emperor is naked” have his observation published in FT? Does the child need a PhD for that?

For more on the how-come and the whats'up see "A Blog is Born" at the very bottom.

Sir FT Bank regulations were not lax at all. They were, and still are, extremely dangerous.

Mr. Kay. It is necessary to place bets that risk bankruptcy so as to have a chance to avoid bankruptcy.

How can the west have faith in its own future when its banks are hindered to finance it?

Does FT´s capital markets editor really believe that in free markets banks could leverage equity 50 times or more?

“Lazy banking” is not just an Indian phenomenon. The Basel Committee has decreed it to rule everywhere.

The Basel Committee and the Financial Stability Board have also some questions of ethics they should grapple with.

It is not voluntarily that European banks are abandoning the private sector in order to take refuge in the government.

Any self-respecting serious buyer on the web will surely like to have her own pick-up drone.

When are they going to fine the bankers and not, suicidally, fine the banks?

Bank of England´s and Financial Stability Board´s Mark Carney, is nothing but a housing dove

We need personal drones, more than Amazon or Google, to get spare keys, and to buy anywhere we please, like in Walmart :-)

The monstrous distortion in the allocation of bank credit to the real economy that regulators do not know they cause

When the autopsy on Europe’s economy is performed, the cause of death will be sissy and dumb bank regulatory risk aversion.

Brother you who do not have a dime, or a job, can you spare me a dime or a job, so that we can grow together?

Force bank regulators to answer the question they do not dare to discuss.

Why and how are medium and small businesses, entrepreneurs and start ups, and normal citizens, ruled to be a systemic danger to the financial system?

If I were an asset manager, I would remain in the shadows. But, if one of “the risky”, I would scream my heart out.

No! Anjana Ahuja, academicians can be completely flawed too…like those used by the Basel Committee.

FT if this is the way European banks “derisk”, there is no doubt that Europe is getting to be much riskier.

Is not a failed planet earth worse than a failed bank? Do not hinder banks from financing green growth only because it is “risky”.

The question is not whether SMEs are risky but whether risky SMEs pose a threat to banks. They don´t!

If fighting groupthink, start with the worst, with bank regulators, Basel Committee and Financial Stability Board

Good for you, Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Mario Draghi has no moral right to speak about discrimination among Europeans

FT, perhaps you should incorporate “and with humility” in your motto, just as a reminder

Regulation ordering brutish and silly risk avoidance by banks, only guarantees a sluggish future.

I may be right, and I may be wrong. But do you not find it in at least curious that what I argue is not even discussed?

The quality of its unemployed is also vital for the strength of a nation

Can we have some more trigger-happy bank regulators please?

What Europe and America need is to return to straightforward conventional bank regulations

No Europe! Don’t listen to FT. Your only chance is to explore more productive bays, even risking more hitting hidden rocks.

We need capital requirements for banks based on saving our planet and creating jobs ratings

European savers, leveraging only once their capital, stands no chance to compete with banks for good rates on “safe” savings

We need much less incestuous processes for determining bank regulations

Basel regulations make banks solely finance what is ex ante safe, and not what ex post could be vital.

Bank regulators, the Basel Committee, created a nuclear bomb, Basel II, the AAA-bomb, which exploded,

The Help to Buy scheme, has also something of a Help to Sell Expensively flair about it.

FSB's rule is no deterrence for a bank wanting to become, globally, the most systemically important bank.

Europe, and the Western world, is spiraling down to its death, embraced by crazy "risk" adverse bank regulations.

FT, don't you get it, there is absolutely nothing so far away from laisser-faire, than capital requirements for banks based on risk weights

Damn you, you so risk adverse, baby boomer bank regulators

Will there be a real ECB audit of European banks, or just another nail in the coffin of a lost generation?

Tim Harford, be very careful, regulators might wish to regulate baking more

Jacob Frenkel has his, and I have my own cross examination dream

Regulators gaming regulations massively, is so much worse than banks gaming regulations somewhat

With regulators like Mark Carney there is no future in finance for the City, or for the rest of the economy for that matter

Mark Carney. Risk-weighted bank capital requirements, is extremely improper regulatory behavior.

Europe, who should define what the non-core assets of your banks are? Regulators, or the needs of your real economy?

Why should banks’ willing spirits but weak flesh be able to resist extreme regulatory temptations?

Classic economics, models and free markets, stand no chance against arrogant intellectually sloppy regulators

Americans who sing about their “Home of the brave”, are clueless about what their bank regulators are up to

Now is not the right time for European banks to make payouts to their shareholders.

Bank of England must allow its banks to finance UK´s future and not just make these refinance its seemingly safer past.

Will the ECB correctly review the disaster in the banks’ balances and assets that Mario Draghi helped to cause?

We need more trigger happy bank regulators

Would US Treasuries been safer, had there been no debt-roof discussions, just business as usual?