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 boom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label boom. Show all posts
September 07, 2018

If only inflation had also measured the price of houses and not just rentals, a lot of problems could have been avoided.

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Sir, Jamie Smyth reports on “the end of a five-year expansion, which saw house prices in Australia’s biggest city rise 70 per cent and hous...
July 21, 2015

In relative terms, banks finance too much house buying, and too little the job creation needed to serve the mortgages.

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Sir, Kate Allen reports: “Last year the BoE introduced tougher mortgage lending rules and warned that a possible resurgence in the country’...
August 06, 2008

Given the inevitability of the bust we need to make more of the boom

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Sir Willem Buiter in “Welcome to a world of diminished expectations” August 6, takes the role of a neutral and detached observer when he rig...
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