Showing posts with label Adair Turner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Adair Turner. Show all posts
September 12, 2018

Sheer regulatory stupidity and statism caused the financial crisis. But that shall not be admitted!

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Sir, Lord Adair Turner writes: “The financial crisis began because of dangerous features within the financial system itself. Massively leve...
December 18, 2017

When banks can leverage more their equity financing “safe” built houses than financing “risky” job creation, too many young are doomed to live unemployed in our basements

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Sir, Bill Mendenhall in a letter of December 18, “Lord Turner got there first on productive credit” mentions a report by Jim Pickard “ Labo...
August 05, 2016

Money from heaven can be real or fake and it can be dropped by trusted helicopter pilots or as Universal Basic Income

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Sir, Robert Skidelsky writes: Because “there is no assurance that a lot of such helicopter money would not be hoarded…contemporary advocate...
May 23, 2016

To drop money on an economy, without cleaning its clogged pipes, is not to give helicopter money a fair chance to work

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Sir, Adair Turner the former chairman of the Financial Services Authority writes: “Eight years after the 2008 financial crisis the global e...
February 24, 2016

Martin Wolf, much more than helicopter droppings, we need regulators who understand what banks are for

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Sir, I refer to Martin Wolf’s “ The helicopter drops might not be far away ”, February 24. As you well know I suffer a self-confessed o...
December 08, 2010

We need also new rules to keep bank regulators alert and on their toes

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Sir, Lord Adair Turner the Chairman of the FSA sustains “We need new rules to keep bankers honest” December 8. Though hoping one could keep ...