Showing posts with label Vanessa Houlder. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vanessa Houlder. Show all posts
December 23, 2017

Imposing on banks risk aversion more suitable to older than younger, regulators violated Edmund Burke’s holy intergenerational social contract

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Vanessa Houlder when writing about Richard Thaler’s ‘nudge’ theory and how our hatred of losses affects risk taking mentions: “Investing in...
January 03, 2017

According to FT’s research, how much do minimum wages and absence of payroll taxes favour robots?

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Sir, Vanessa Houlder writes: “When you book an Airbnb room in London, around a third of the $100 saving you make over the price of an avera...
April 08, 2016

Do Gillian Tett and other really believe that ever-growing offshore cash piles, is cash stashed away under mattresses?

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Sir, Gillian Tett writes: “overseas profit piles have swelled — to more than $2tn”; and from there she jumps to: “in the real world introdu...
February 25, 2016

For not questioning the IMF staff sufficiently, Christine Lagarde might, sadly, not deserve her second term

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Sir, Vanessa Houlder lauds Ms Lagarde for having “frequently deferred to the fund’s staff in formulating policy” “ Lagarde deserves her sec...
June 11, 2013

G8, by championing the Extractive Industries Transparency Directive, might be selling snake-oil-illusions

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Sir, I refer to Vanessa Houlder’s note “ Extractive Industries ” June 11, where she writes about Cameron urging his G8 partners to champion...
May 04, 2013

The best way to compete with tax havens and fiscal paradises abroad is to create tax heavens and paradises at home.

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Sir, Vanessa Houlder writes that with respect to tax avoidance “Governments are complicit in the problems they are condemning. It is their ...