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?

For more see "A Blog is Born" at the very bottom.

Showing posts with label lending capacity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lending capacity. Show all posts
October 03, 2015

When paid by Volkswagen, the fines should go to patent free research of better diesel engines… and emission controls

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Sir, Brooke Masters write “Drivers who bought VW’s “clean diesel” engines are now faced with technical fixes that could well reduce both fu...

Bank fines should be paid with bank equity, not with cash, unless we are masochists and want to be cruel to the economy.

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Increasing the capital requirements for banks in the midst of a slow economy, while at the same time eroding bank capital with fines, is sh...
March 26, 2014

$100bn in legal settlements for banks also means $2tn less in bank lending capacity

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Sir Richard McGregor and Aaron Stanley write on FT’s first page “ Banks hit by $100bn in US legal settlements since crisis ” March 26. ...
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