Showing posts with label crime against humanity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crime against humanity. Show all posts
February 08, 2018

Should a sanctioned bank like Wells Fargo be allowed to immediately advertise itself as a do-gooder?

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Sir, with respect to the recently sanctioned Wells Fargo we can observe that, in order to clean its name, it has now launched, as is typica...
June 06, 2017

Should financing gas chambers in Auschwitz be right if the risk premiums are right?

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Sir, Steve Johnson quotes Claudia Calich, the emerging markets debt manager at M&G Investments: “with a lot of the countries [EM bond f...
February 09, 2017

To better help the environment and fight inequality, get rid of the profiteers, and give the citizens the incentives

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Sir, after a price increase of 6.000% last year, gasoline is currently being sold a US$ 1 cent per liter in Venezuela, a country in which p...
November 11, 2016

Do not odious debts derive directly from odious credits or odious borrowings?

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I refer to Jonathan Wheatley’s, Andres Schipani’s and Robin Wigglesworth’s FT: Big Read on the finances of Venezuela “A nation in bondage” ...
October 26, 2016

Should it be required for a sovereign to be placed on a “The Bad” list, for its financiers to be morally concerned?

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Sir, Jonathan Wheatley and Eric Platt write: “Just how much room for manoeuvre does cash-strapped Petróleos de Venezuela have? It is the qu...
October 11, 2016

FT, where’s the real hurdle? In PDVSA’s debt swap, or in PDVSA and Venezuela’s government?

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Sir, Eric Platt and Jessica Dye write: “Analysts and bankers remain optimistic that a deal will be clinched, as a default would cut both Ve...
August 19, 2016

In Venezuela there’s much human suffering because of lack of food and medicines; but petrol is 1 US$ CENT PER LITER!

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Sir, I refer to your editorial " Venezuela’s problems can no longer be ignored " August 19. Of course as a Venezuelan I pray ...
June 19, 2016

In sovereign debt should not moral and ethical issues be more important than collective and pari passu clauses?

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Sir, Robin Wigglesworth discusses bond legalese, like collective and pari passu clauses, and rightly concludes “paying attention to the leg...
May 30, 2016

In the midst of the Venezuelan pandemonium, is not selling petrol at less than $2 cents a liter a crime?

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Sir, Daniel Lansberg-Rodriguez, describing Venezuela’s current plight writes: “Food and medicine are scarce. Anemic oil prices and a heavy ...
May 23, 2016

Is the concept of economic crimes against humanity too much for governments to handle?

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Sir, Andres Schipani writes that Henrique Capriles, with respect to the government’s actions on the recall referendum says: “they will be b...
October 21, 2015

If a credit from one sovereign to another were classified as a crime against humanity how would the IMF proceed?

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Sir, in Venezuela going to the IMF for assistance, is such a hot potato that some might even be hauled in front of a court accused for anti...
January 15, 2015

When does a subsidy become an outright gift? Hugo Chavez committed an odious economic-policy crime against humanity.

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Sir I refer to Andres Schipani’s and John Paul Rathbone’s “ Oil’s slide forces Venezuela to rethink subsidies agreed in Chávez glory days ”...
August 20, 2014

Do not reduce what is an economic crime against humanity to merely being a “petrol subsidy”

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Sir, Daniel Lansberg Rodriguez, I presume my former colleague as columnist in El Universal, as I assume he has been censored too, writes ab...
May 10, 2013

Regulators, and FT journalists, suffer from cognitive overload and malfunctioning prefrontal cortex.

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Sir, Christopher Coker’s “ Technology is making humans the weakest link in warfare ” May 10 is an extraordinarily enlightening article…amon...
May 08, 2013

Without eliminating regulatory distortions, neither austerity nor profligacy can help Europe

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Sir, Martin Wolf writes: “the hope that [the European countries in crisis] will grow their way out of their difficulties, via eurozone dema...

It was bank regulators who suffered the mother of all intellectual failures

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Sir, John Kay writes that the left, were so horrified that a collapse of capitalism from its own global contradictions, might occur under t...