Showing posts with label Martin Wolf. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Martin Wolf. Show all posts
July 03, 2025

What if a Basel Committee had regulated the payouts of casinos?

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Sir, in “ The risks of fund­ing states via casi­nos ” FT, July 3, Martin Wolf writes: “In the run-up to the GFC, the dom­in­ant form of lend...
April 03, 2024

How much transparency can democracy handle?

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Sir, Martin Wolf writes: “The more com­plete the set of rights, the more potent will be the con­straints: there will then also be open debat...
January 10, 2024

Mr. Martin Wolf, what do you mean, is liberalism not broken?

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Sir, I refer to “ Liberalism is battered but not yet broken ” Martin Wolf, FT January 10, 2024. Since 1988, with Basel I, non-elected by the...
December 12, 2023

#AI ChatGPT - OpenAI: A question on behalf of FT and Martin Wolf.

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  In " Britain needs a growth strategy " Martin Wolf mentions the UK has for too long settled for managing stagnation. On behalf o...
April 17, 2023

To stand a chance, UK must refrain from imprudent risk-aversion and embrace some prudent risk-taking.

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Sir, I refer to Martin Wolf’s “ The UK’s future depends on improving economic performance ” FT, April 15 2023.  Wolf at the end of it recomm...
April 03, 2023

Are British authorities more aware of risks than those in the US? Martin Wolf, dare find out.

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Sir, Martin Wolf writes “The best pro­tec­tion against occa­sional huge bank­ing crises is fre­quent smal­ler ones.” “ The UK must learn its...
January 23, 2023

For our grandchildren sake we must recover the “democratic capitalism” we inherited and lost too much of.

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“We have inherited democratic capitalism from the struggles of our predecessors. We must reform and protect it for our descendants.” Martin ...
January 11, 2023

Creditworthiness should be grounded on what’s worthy of credit.

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Sir, Martin Wolf writes “The vicious circle in which low creditworthiness begets unaffordable spreads, which beget debt crises and even lowe...
September 21, 2022

Britannia, to have a chance to become its former self, needs to free its financial systems from its mis-regulators.

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Sir, Martin Wolf asks: “Britannia is not ‘unchained’. It is instead sailing in perilous waters. Can the new captain and first mate even see ...
April 28, 2022

Why does the world ignore regulations that totally disrupt the allocation of bank credit?

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Sir, I refer to Martin Wolf’s “ Shocks from war in Ukraine are many-sided. - The conflict is a multiplier of disruption in an already disru...
February 23, 2022

For inflation, where the money supply goes, matters a lot too

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Sir, I refer to Martin Wolf’s “ The monetarist dog is having its day ”, FT February 23. Yes, the money supply impacts inflation, no doubts b...
February 18, 2022

Compared to more than three decades ago, what is the current leverage ratio of our banks?

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Sir, Martin Wolf, in FT on July 12, 2012, in “ Seven ways to clean up our banking ‘cesspit ’” opined: “Banks need far more equity: In settin...
October 18, 2021

Martin Wolf, again, any good economic plan needs, sine qua non, to get rid of bank credit distorting regulations.

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Sir, I refer to Martin Wolf’s “ Without an economic plan, patriotism is Johnson’s last refuge ” FT, October 18, 2021 In Martin Wolf’s Econom...
June 28, 2021

The main ingredient of any safe pension system is a healthy and sturdy economy.

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Sir, I refer to Martin Wolf’s “ It is folly to make pensions safe by making them unaffordable ” FT, June 28. Wolf writes: “We also need true...
June 16, 2021

Spurn bank regulators' false promises.

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Sir, Martin Wolf makes a good case for “We should not throw liberal trade away for the wrong reasons and in the wrong way”, “ Spurn the fals...
June 12, 2021

Central banks and regulators cancelled the creative part of destruction.

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I refer to Martin Wolf’s comments on Philippe Aghion, Céline Antonin and Simon Bunel’s “The Power of Creative Destruction”, “ The innovation...
June 10, 2021

Bank regulators never considered the unexpected, like a pandemic

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Sir, Angela Merkel, Justin Trudeau and Erna Solberg opine: “The Covid-19 pandemic has taught us that the costs of prevention and early respo...
March 08, 2021

Has Thatcherism run its course, or has Thatcherism been run off its course?

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Sir, Martin Wolf asks “once we accept that Thatcherism has run its course, what follows?” “ Sunak takes an axe to Thatcher’s low-tax ideolog...
March 03, 2021

Before aiming at any target, central banks must cure their shortsightedness

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Sir, I refer to Martin Wolf’s “ What central banks ought to target ” FT, March 3. With risk weighted bank capital requirements, the regulato...
February 23, 2021

Bank capital requirements or bank leverage allowances?

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Martin Wolf referring to Windows of Opportunity by David Sainsbury writes that growth is “exploiting new opportunities that generate endurin...