Showing posts with label Eric Platt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eric Platt. Show all posts
April 27, 2019

Central banks seem not able to tell their magic porridge pot to stop

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Sir, Robert Armstrong, Oliver Ralph, and Eric Platt make a reference to the fairy tale of the magic porridge pot writing “Every working day...
September 28, 2017

You redistribution profiteers: There’s very little cash in “cash”; and wealth is mostly just frozen purchasing power

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Sir, Eric Platt writes about “the lack of detail…typical of the 30 large US-domiciled companies analysed by the FT that hold more than $10b...
September 16, 2017

When frozen in other types of “cash”, it is hard to free up cash to spend on good causes without losing much value

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Sir, I refer to “ Debt Collectors ” September 16, in which Eric Platt, Alexandra Scaggs and Nicole Bullock search to explain what could hap...
August 04, 2017

The risk weighted capital requirements give banks great incentives to hide risk from their regulators.

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Sir, Eric Platt and Alistair Gray write “US regulators have joined investors in voicing concern over risky bank lending… particularly when ...
October 26, 2016

Should it be required for a sovereign to be placed on a “The Bad” list, for its financiers to be morally concerned?

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Sir, Jonathan Wheatley and Eric Platt write: “Just how much room for manoeuvre does cash-strapped Petróleos de Venezuela have? It is the qu...
October 19, 2016

Compared to the poor of Venezuela, PDVSA’s bondholders, as a group and over time, have benefitted way too much

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Sir, Eric Platt and Robin Wigglesworth write that PDVSA’s Rafael Rodriguez, Mr del Pino’s chief of staff, appealing to the investors to tak...
October 11, 2016

FT, where’s the real hurdle? In PDVSA’s debt swap, or in PDVSA and Venezuela’s government?

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Sir, Eric Platt and Jessica Dye write: “Analysts and bankers remain optimistic that a deal will be clinched, as a default would cut both Ve...
September 08, 2016

Moody, what would happen to US credit ratings if suddenly it was not any longer the world’s mightiest military power?

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Sir, Rochelle Toplensky and Eric Platt write that according to Moody, the four primary factors it considers when assessing a country’s cred...
May 24, 2016

The AAA and AA rated are especially exposed to bank regulations that endanger their future.

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Sir, Eric Platt quotes Nick Gartside of JPMorgan with: “In a way, double A has become the new triple A, when you have a lot less triple A d...
May 21, 2016

Though redistribution profiteers believe it and demagogues want you to believe it, there are no “huge piles of cash”

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Sir, the word “cash” appears 8 times in Eric Platt’s “ US tech cash pile soars to $504bn as groups seek to avoid tax hit on profits ” May 2...
December 06, 2015

Bank regulators’ magnificent pro-cyclical machine is fueled by credit rating downgrades

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Sir, Eric Platt writes: “ US corporate downgrades soar past $1tn as defaults gain pace ” December 5. He discusses several of its implic...
December 04, 2015

Risk weighted TLAC intensifies the irresponsible regulatory distortion of bank credit allocation to the real economy

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Sir, I refer to Eric Platt’s and Ben McLannahan’s “ S&P downgrades 8 US lenders on support fears ” and to Lex’s “ US banks: losing thei...