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 kafka. Show all posts

March 09, 2015

The Fed, surprising banks with visits is ok, but surprising them with surprise regulatory criteria, sounds illegal

Sir, amazed I read Ben McLannahan reporting that “Fed officials say that they want to preserve some mystery in their methods, so that banks...

December 16, 2013

If banks do well but the real economy falls, we will all fall… at the end including the banks. It is as easy as that!

Sir, it is hard for me to get a grip on what John Authers really means with heavily regulated when writing “Banking is complex, and must be...

September 11, 2009

Since Basel has become too one minded to regulate we must break up the regulator too

Sir not only do I agree with Philip Augar and John McFall in that “ To fix the system we must break up the banks ” September 11, but perhap...

September 08, 2009

And my warnings were silenced by the FT establishment

Sir Dirk Bezemer, in “Why some economist could see it coming”, September 8, argues correctly that many did indeed see it coming but that “th...

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