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 contestability. Show all posts
Showing posts with label contestability. Show all posts
September 25, 2018

What we have is not by a long shot economic liberalism, it is much more statism, and of the crony kind.

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Sir, Martin Wolf refers to Yascha Mounk of Harvard University arguing “that undemocratic liberalism, notably economic liberalism, largely e...
December 19, 2016

Why has the Financial Times, and other, kept silence for so long about some obvious mistakes in bank regulations?

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Sir, Wolfgang Münchau now finally writes: “We should start making a distinction between the interests of the financial sector and the econo...
December 09, 2016

When there is no contestability whatsoever, perhaps a disrupting referendum is the citizens' only option

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Sir, as a Venezuelan it is with great interest I read Martin Wolf’s “ Appeals to the will of the people threaten parliamentary democracy ” ...
September 16, 2016

Governments best take big decisions, when there’s no conflict of interest, no stupid groupthink, and contestability.

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Sir, I come from an country, Venezuela, where privatizations of public owned utilities were based not on who would provide us citizens the ...
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