Showing posts with label Timothy Geithner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Timothy Geithner. Show all posts
July 20, 2018

Don’t help bank regulators get away from being held accountable for their mistakes by politicizing the issue.

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Sir, Gillian Tett commenting on Ben Bernanke, Henry Paulson and Timothy Geithner comments on the 10-year anniversary of the Lehman Brothers...
May 23, 2015

Though capable Giants could be great at smoothing over a crisis, the not so capable could help more getting over it.

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“How lucky could you be that you have a guy who spent his life studying the Great Depression [Bernanke], combined with a guy who’d spent al...
May 28, 2014

What can an insignificant ego like mine, even if absolutely right, do against significant egos, even when these are absolutely wrong?

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What is perceived as risky never constitutes much real risk. What most drives a financial doomsday machine is what is perceived as absolute...
May 18, 2014

Bank regulators don’t dare hold “morbidity and mortality reviews of bank crises”, less these would find them responsible

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Sir, Timothy Geithner while lunching with Martin Wolf refers to “Complications: Notes from the life of a young surgeon” by Atul Gawande and...
February 08, 2013

Nothing as unethical as bank regulations that unethically discriminate against those perceived to be “risky”

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Sir, Neil Barofsky lets his heart all out, when complaining about unethical behavior in banking, and most especially about the lenient judi...
September 09, 2011

Getting rid of the regulatory discrimination against the “risky”, that’s what the world most needs to boost growth.

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Sir, it is sad indeed when in Timothy Geithner’s “What the world must do to boost growth”, September 9, more than 3 years after the crisis s...
January 14, 2011

The perceived risks are never as dangerous as those not perceived

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Sir, according to what Tom Braithwaite reports Tim Geithner has embraced humility concluding that it is not possible “to make a judgment abo...
October 05, 2009

Timothy Geithner should start by increasing the capital requirements for banks when lending to the government.

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Sir Krishna Guha in “Bankers´ pleas on rules rebuffed , October 5, reports that Timothy Geithner said of the banks “These are the institutio...
September 04, 2009

Mr Geithner, and the rest of you regulators… you are so wrong.

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Sir Timothy Geithner writes that “Stability depends on more capital” September 4, and he is so wrong. Stability depends almost exclusively o...
May 19, 2009

Please, may we have a small but growing capital charge on governments?

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Sir if your bank lends your government 100 pounds then it is not required to have any equity but, if it lends that amount to your unrated ne...
February 11, 2009

Limit and subsidize credit card rates

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I heard Geithner in the Congress and I read Martin Wolf’s “Why Obama’s new Tarp will fail to rescue the banks” February 11 and it is clear t...
January 22, 2009

Geithner could be heading onto the wrong direction.

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Sir FT reports quite extensively on the confirmation hearings of Timothy Geithner, the Treasury nominee held by the US Senate’s Finance Comm...
June 09, 2008

We need to avoid monopolies or oligopolies in the market of risk-appraisals.

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Sir it is indeed comforting to read the president and chief executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Timothy Geithner admit that “R...

We need to avoid monopolies or oligopolies in the market of risk-appraisals.

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Sir it is indeed comforting to read the president and chief executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York admit that "Regulation ca...