Showing posts with label government bureaucrats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label government bureaucrats. Show all posts
July 14, 2017

Any jury, given the facts on how Venezuela works, would in seconds, unanimously condemn Mr. Mauro Libi for corruption.

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Sir, John Paul Rathbone writes: “As protests and violence engulf Caracas, the country is beset by shortages and endemic corruption. Amid 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...
January 06, 2017

C-suite experience can be just as irrelevant to real Main Street animal spirit as government bureaucracy experience.

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Sir, Gillian Tett discusses the respective government and C-suite experience statistics of different government teams, and comments that th...
September 13, 2016

Martin Wolf, motorcycles are much riskier, and that’s precisely why more people die in car accidents

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Sir, Martin Wolf writes: “The determinants of the secular decline in the real natural (or neutral) rate of interest are forces affecting th...
September 09, 2016

FT, get off my cloud! Stop betting our future on technocrats and bureaucrats, instead of on SMEs and entrepreneurs

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Sir you write: “Mr Draghi is justified in claiming that the ECB’s stimulus is working…[though] growth remains well below the level needed t...
September 01, 2016

It would be nice, and fair, to see technocrats, like Margrethe Vestager, directly affected by what they decide.

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Sir, I refer to John Gapper’s “ Apple, keep your cool over global tax ” September 1 in order to ask one question. If Margrethe Vestage...
November 26, 2015

Martin Wolf, the government’s favorable borrowing terms come at extremely high costs, especially for our young.

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Sir, Martin Wolf insists again in that the government should take advantage of very “favourable terms” to borrow so as to invest [in infras...
July 27, 2015

The best Sovereign Debt Restructuring Mechanism (SDRM) is the one that most reduces the need for it.

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Sir I refer to your discussions about a “holy grail… a sovereign debt restructuring mechanism (SDRM) — a bankruptcy procedure for states.” ...
July 14, 2015

Sovereign rights should refer to the nation rights of citizens, and not to the nation rights of government bureaucrats.

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Sir Gideon Rachman, in his very clear-eyed and straight talking “ Germany’s conditional surrender ”, July 14, mentions: “Much of the commen...
July 06, 2015

Greece’s “NO!”, to be useful, must foremost be a “NO!” to the Basel Committee’s pro-government biased bank regulations.

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Sir, Nick Malkoutzis writes: “Greeks…need to hear something more hopeful than talk of more spending cuts and tax rises.” “ Greeks deserve m...
July 04, 2015

Less trust in the Greek government has a great silver lining we can only hope lasts long enough.

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Sir, Peter Spiegel writes: “Trust is so broken several eurozone officials say even if Greeks defy Mr Tsipras and vote Yes tomorrow, they ma...
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...
May 27, 2015

I refuse to believe in the Basel Committee’s nonsense of government bureaucrats using bank credit better than SMEs

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Sir, you hold that “Bankers need to demonstrate that they know right from wrong”, “ Regulation alone will not restore faith in markets ”, M...
May 26, 2015

FT, do you really think credit-risk-weighted capital requirements for banks do not cause lower productivity?

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Sir, Sam Fleming and Chris Giles ask: “what can be done to restore the productivity levels needed to boost living standards…?” “ The waitin...