Showing posts with label group think. Show all posts
Showing posts with label group think. Show all posts
July 21, 2018

To tell us “What really went wrong in the 2008 financial crisis” might require more distance to the events

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Martin Wolf reviewing Adam Tooze’ “Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crisis Changed the World” refers to the author’s question of “How do ...
March 17, 2017

To understand risk-weighted capital requirements for banks distort, is not geeky, just thinking outside The Group.

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Sir, Gillian Tett mentions that Hyun Song Shin, and economic adviser at the Bank for International Settlements, “believes that modern econo...
September 02, 2016

If they do not belong to her The Group, the tribe, Gillian Tett does not seem to read what her readers write to her.

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Sir, Gillian Tett writes “ Echoes of 2008 as danger signs are ignored ” and mentions the “Jackson Hole tribe barely mentioned these at all”...
May 25, 2011

Choosing based on merits defined by the group is often another source of dangerous group-think.

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Sir I could not agree more with the arguments presented by Martin Wolf when he writes that “Europe should not control the IMF” May 25, summi...
April 14, 2011

The truth about the crisis that the different silos, including FT’s, does not want or cannot see.

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Sir, if all sovereign and private bank clients were paying the banks exactly the same risk-premiums, then the risk-weights used in Basel II ...
March 28, 2008

Too much ‘Group think’ C’est la vie!

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Sir Gillian Tett in “Banking oversight and the danger of ‘group think’” March 28 mentions the “difficulty the staff of the Financial Service...