Tea with FT

As a former Executive Director of the World Bank I know that the columnists of the Financial Times have more voice than what I ever had, and therefore they might need some checks-and-balances.

Would a child shouting out “the Emperor is naked” have his observation published in FT? Would he now need a PhD for that to happen?

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Showing posts with label The Risky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Risky. Show all posts
August 05, 2019

Don’t keep adding bank regulations for what is ex ante perceived risky. It is what is ex ante perceived as very safe that should concern us the most.

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Sir, I refer to Sheila Bair discussion of how much banks are to set aside in order to cover for loan losses. “ Congress should stay out of ...
June 23, 2018

Regulators gave banks great incentives to smoke around drum barrels marked “empty”, and to stay away from drums marked “full”.

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Gillian Tett writes “before 2008 the big banks spent a great deal of time fretting about issues that seemed obviously risky — hedge funds o...
March 26, 2015

The pricing distortions by QEs are leveraged manifold by the regulatory distortion of bank credit.

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Sir, Scott Minerd holds: “But in the long run, classical economics would tell us that the pricing distortions created by QE will lead to a ...
October 09, 2013

Why is it so difficult for Martin Wolf to understand the need for rebalancing the access to bank credit?

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Sir, Martin Wolf, October 9, writes about “The pain of rebalancing global growth” but, stubbornly, keeps on refusing to even mention the mo...
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