Showing posts with label besserwisser. Show all posts
Showing posts with label besserwisser. Show all posts
August 10, 2018

It behooves EU technocrats to find out what Europeans want and do not want to come out of Brexit.

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Sir, Karin Kneissl, even by daring to explain some historical reasons for why Britain might not really belong in EU, makes a firm and clear...
July 27, 2018

Bank regulators violated the holy intergenerational social contract that Edmund Burke spoke about.

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Sir, Philip Stephens writes: “Nostalgia has always had its place in politics. Respect for tradition is at the heart of Burkean conservatism....
December 30, 2017

Current risk weighted capital requirements for banks are a stand out example of “garbage in garbage out”

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Sir, when discussing artificial intelligence and “how much power should be ceded to the machines” you mention: First. “the need to overcome...
September 20, 2017

Risk weighted capital requirements for banks expresses a venomous lack of confidence in the future

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Sir, Martin Wolf writes “the financial crises that destroyed globalisation in the 1930s and damaged it after 2008 led to poverty, insecurit...
September 17, 2017

Has Brexit and Trump just been too much for Martin Wolf to handle?

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Sir, on December 30, 2009 Martin Wolf wrote: “the civilisation we pray survives for our descendants is indeed at stake”, "The challeng...
September 12, 2017

Having experienced Saudi-Venezuela’s Plan, I know Saudi Arabia’s “National Transformation Program” will fail

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Sir, Jason Bordoff writes about Saudi Arabia’s “National Transformation Program, a bundle of targets and initiatives designed to deliver th...
March 10, 2017

If a citizen of an oil-cursed nation, like Nigeria, would you like a FT lending support to its central besserwissers?

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Sir, you write “If the government were to reduce its stakes in the oil joint ventures to a minority it would not only raise some $20bn towa...
February 07, 2017

A holier than thou alliance of hysterical extreme besserwisser progressives, is pushing too many into No No Land

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Sir, Janan Ganesh opines that visceral/hysterical reaction against Trump no matter how correct it might be, might evidence to many voters t...
January 24, 2017

FT, you have good reporters; send them to the Whitehouse to pose Trump some constructive questions on protectionism.

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Sir, you write: “Forcing industrial output to return to the US is likely to create work for US-based robots rather than workers” “ Take the...
November 09, 2016

It is time for America to ask bank regulation’s risk weights of 0% Sovereign and 100% We the People, to take a hike!

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Sir, Martin Wolf, in reference to the United States writes: “In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man rules… the next administration w...
October 26, 2016

With tighter bank capital rules and lower bank profits, risk weighting hurts economic dynamism more than ever.

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Martin Wolf asks “Is globalisation reversing?” And answers “No, but it has lost dynamism… partly because opportunities for expanded process...
May 07, 2016

FT, are you aligned with the interests of redistribution profiteers and besserwissers, or with citizens’?

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Sir you refer to that “Next month, Switzerland will hold a referendum on whether to introduce an Unconditional Basic Income”, and then you ...
October 07, 2015

To manage risks our bankers are always better free, in God’s hands, than in hands of some hubristic sophisticated besserwissers

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Sir, Martin Wolf writes: “Market liquidity is likely to disappear when one needs it most. Building our hopes on its durability is risky. Th...
June 04, 2014

Again besserwisser Martin Wolf ignores the regulatory discrimination against “the risky” when accessing bank credit

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Sir, I refer to Martin Wolf’s “ Legitimate business unlocks growth ” June 4. In it he writes that answering the question “What lies beh...
May 03, 2014

Ever more complex finance requires denser and duller, bordering on brain-less, hard-headed stubborn bank regulators.

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Sir, Tracy Alloway writes “If the institutions which create these [sophisticated financial] products cannot correctly asses their value, th...
March 18, 2013

About “Why bank regulators are intellectually naked”, and about besserwisser journalists

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Sir, Martin Wolf has suddenly seen light as he now writes “A sophisticated mistake is the idea that capital can be properly ‘risk-weighted’...
January 18, 2013

The willingness to take risks is the true locomotive of an economy

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Sir, Sir Samuel Brittan ends his “ Britain has a funny way of firing up the locomotive ” of January 18 with “Keynes…was up against the self...
December 24, 2012

In this age of media driven besserwissers we need to be more skeptical than ever about “expertise”

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Sir, John Lloyd writes “It is a source of [British] pride that disorganization is transformed into magnificence” but “that now some have de...
March 22, 2008

We do not need FT to be a Besserwisser

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Sir in your “Muzzle the market manipulators” March 22, you just come through as a Besserwisser saying “All long term-investors can do is ign...