Showing posts with label Chauncey Gardiner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chauncey Gardiner. Show all posts
July 20, 2017

Where would China be if western world had not placed a reverse mortgage on their economies, in order to keep on buying?

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Sir, with interest I have read Martin Wolf’s “ How the developed world lost its edge ” July 20. In my opinion Wolf ignores two major events...
February 04, 2017

Risk weights of 20% for AAA rated and 150% for the below BB-, evidences the Basel Committee’s intellectual failure

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Sir, Brooke Masters makes a lot of good points in her “ Loss of a safety-first regulatory regime is no reason to party ” February 4. Unfort...
January 17, 2017

When will supposedly sophisticated papers like Financial Times wake up to the horrors of current bank regulations?

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Sir, Ray Soifer writes: “No wonder banks’ shares generally trade at a discount to their stated book value. No one really knows what their t...
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 bank lending to stimulate the economy but c...
May 03, 2016

If Draghi were a nanny at a sandbox, he would tell the kids to beware of the ugly, and trust much the nice looking

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Sir, I refer to Claire Jones’s “ Draghi rejects criticism of ECB rate drop ” May 3. Mario Draghi is the former chair of the Financial S...
March 11, 2016

Three questions that could help determine whether ECB’s Mario Draghi is for real, or just another Chauncey Gardiner.

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Sir, Katie Martin, in Short View March 11 writes: Mario Draghi says that he still has ammunition left in his battle against deflation. But ...
November 07, 2015

The Basel Committee by favoring the safe old hurts the chances of the risky new economy to germinate.

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Sir, John Authers writes: “That so many public companies are choosing to pay out cash rather than reinvest it is therefore disquieting… Com...
October 14, 2015

When regulators double up on the bankers’ aversion to credit risk, solid sustainable economic growth is not possible.

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The world placed its banks in the hands of technocrats who have probably never ever walked on the mains streets of the economy and who ther...
July 31, 2015

In the movie “Mission Impossible: Rogue Bank Regulators”, FT could play a leading role.

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Sir, Nigel Andrews, when reviewing “Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation” and because someone there says “Today is the day the IMF’s luck run...
June 19, 2015

Are our brains wired so as to make us confuse ex-post real risks with ex-ante perception of risk?

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Sir, James Macintosh writes: “When investors come to believe that the inherent uncertainty of markets or economies has gone away, it is usu...
April 13, 2015

Has Europe fallen into the hands of a Chauncey Gardiner like figure?

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Sir, I refer to Joel Lewin’s “ European QE redraws junk bond frontier ” April 14. Were the implications not so tragic one could have jo...
November 06, 2005

Chavez 21st-Century social vision! My oh my!

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Sir, if Mugabe’s Zimbabwe had Venezuela's oil, would he perhaps also be associated with a “vision” of “21st-century socialism”? When wr...