Showing posts with label capital controls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label capital controls. Show all posts
October 17, 2018

Our banking systems have been made especially fragile, because of especially bad bank regulations.

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Sir, Martin Wolf writes “The world’s economy and financial systems are fragile … the most important source of fragility is political… In co...
September 07, 2016

Basel’s risk weighted capital requirements for banks, a de facto capital control, blocked bank credit globalization

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Sir, Martin Wolf writes: “The financial crisis brought with it regulatory measures, many of which are bound to slow cross-border financial ...
March 10, 2016

Central banks, when are you going to lift that dangerous capital control the Basel Commitee concocted? Its urgent!

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Sir, Donal O’Mahony speaks out loud and clear. We do have many reasons to question whether central bankers have a good idea about what they...
January 21, 2016

Mark Carney's worries over financial risks, are influencing the results of BoE’s monetary policy.

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Sir, Martin Wolf writes: “Worries over financial risks are legitimate. But they must not determine monetary policy” “ Carney is right not t...
December 07, 2015

Stupidly distorting bank regulations are inhibiting lending to small and medium sized businesses

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Sir, Lawrence Summers writes: “regulatory pressure is inhibiting lending to small and medium sized businesses.” “ Central bankers do not ha...
July 03, 2015

Capital controls imposed by bank regulators caused the problem that threatens to push Greece out of the Eurozone.

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Sir, Ferdinando Giugliano writes: “Greek authorities have imposed sweeping capital controls to prevent a collapse of the banking system tha...
October 10, 2014

The more you stabilize, the more you risk making the system brittle, so the more you really destabilize.

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Sir, I refer to Paul Tucker’s “ The world needs different ways of taming capital flows ” October 10. I have always, in the case of smal...
July 30, 2014

FT, Sir I shiver at the thought of what you would think to be “not-light-touch” bank regulations.

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Sir, I refer to your “ Lloyds and lessons from past scandals ” July 30. Sir we have bank regulators who told the bank: “Here you have u...
November 06, 2013

FT, don't you get it, there is absolutely nothing so far away from laisser-faire, than capital requirements for banks based on risk weights

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Sir, in “ Save business from the businessmen ” November 6, you write “More intrusive regulation should be reserved for special cases such a...
December 04, 2012

But IMF never said a word against the mother of all capital controls.

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Although I have been a long opponent on capital controls for outgoing flows, I am a great believer in capital controls on inflows, the Chil...
April 14, 2010

But freedom does not require formality and survives even in prisons

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Sir Russell Napier holds that “Tower of debt will force a roll back of the free markets” April 14. I do not understand where he gets such an...
November 19, 2004

Basel is just a mutual admiration club of firefighters seeking to avoid crisis

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Published in FT November 18, 2004  The link is gone! You will find the copy below. Sir, If a citizen from a developed country wishes to o...