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 poverty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poverty. Show all posts
September 15, 2020

Thou shall not sell environmental crimes indulgences

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Sir, albeit a bit late, I refer to David Sheppard’s Big Read “ Carbon trading: the ‘one-way’ bet for hedge funds ” FT August 23.In his Encyc...
June 04, 2017

What causes more inequality, or feelings of poverty, some CEOs’ obscene high salaries, or some prices, like those of Viagra?

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Sir, I refer to David Crow’s “ Cost of Viagra increases 27% as Pfizer raises US drug prices ” June 3. I have no idea why but my doctor ...
May 29, 2017

Universal Basic Income panics redistribution profiteers. OECD’s model insists on these targeting better the poor.

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Sir, Chris Giles writes: “The modeling exercise by the OECD, the Paris-based organization of mainly rich nations that specializes in cross-...
November 06, 2015

The Basel Committee’s instructions: Banks, ignore poverty, jobs, sustainability and inequality and just focus on credit risk

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Sir, Andrew McAfee, gives us his take on the tragedy that “Lots of the traditional jobs for these people are disappearing in the rich world...
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