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 monopoly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label monopoly. Show all posts
February 08, 2018

What does “stored wealth” mean? Is it really redistributable, just like that, without any consequences?

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Sir, Edward Luce writes: “America’s elites have stored more wealth than they can consume. This creates three problems for everyone else” “...
August 08, 2015

Is it time for a sort of Piketty wealth tax to be applied to the national football (soccer) league?

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Sir, Tim Harford quotes Stefan Szymanski’s book Money and Football with: “It costs something like a billion quid to turn a club from a bott...
May 29, 2014

Maybe it is time to revisit the whole concept of progressiveness in taxes.

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Sir, John Gapper, perhaps solely wearing his hat of a writer, basically proposes creating a publisher monopoly in order to counter the grow...
August 26, 2012

Unfortunately the fight for the best gate-watching positions is a never-ending story

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Sir, I can certainly identify with Dr. Thomas Snitch’s despair when, quoted by Gillian Tett, he cries out “These folks would rather turn do...
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