Showing posts with label real economy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label real economy. Show all posts
November 15, 2019

If Brexit goes hand in hand with a Baselexit, Britain will at least do better than now.

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Sir, Martin Wolf titles, [and I add], “ Irresponsible promises will hit brutal economic reality " November 15. Just like the irrespo...
May 08, 2019

FT, when helping covering up for bank regulators’ mistakes, do you lie awake, or do you sleep like a baby?

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Sir, Sarah O’Connor writes “We could use more leaders in politics and business who doubt themselves, who seek the opinions of others and wh...
December 31, 2018

The Fed and bank regulators have done many times more harm to the real economy than the political leadership, President Trump included.

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Sir, Rana Foroohar writes:“It is clear that the power of monetary policy to support the real economy has diminished. In lieu of better poli...
May 01, 2018

Sweden got to be an economic powerhouse with its banks financing “risky” entrepreneurs, not by these financing “safer” houses.

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Sir, Patrick Jenkins reports: “Nordea has a core equity capital ratio of close to 20 per cent, double that of some European rivals. It can ...
April 27, 2018

Bank regulators, get rid of risk weighted capital requirements, so that savvy loan officers mean more for banks’ ROE’s, than creative equity minimizers.

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Sir, Gillian Tett referring to IMF’s recent warnings about the risks of overheating in risky loan and bonds markets; like “The proportion o...
March 02, 2018

“Relax” or “tighten” has little to do with better regulation of US’s banks. Revise, correct and simplify, is what it should all be about.

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Sir, I refer to Hal Scott’s and Lisa Donner’s discussion “ Head to head: Should the US relax regulation on its big banks? ” March 2. Ha...
February 26, 2018

Rana Foroohar. Please ask yourself a question and, if you cannot answer it, do ponder why.

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Sir, I refer to Rana Foroohar’s “ Three questions for the Fed’s Powell ” February 26. Ms. Foroohar (and you too Sir) should ask herself...
February 05, 2018

Banks now invest based on the risk-adjusted yields of assets adjusted for allowed leverages; that distorts the allocation of credit to the real economy.

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Sir, Lawrence Summers, when writing about the challenges Jay Powell will face as Fed chairman mentions “Even with very low interest rates, ...
January 27, 2018

Good global economic governance also depends on the Financial Times of the world doing their duty by questioning diligently.

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Sir, you write “The world economy is in good health. Global economic governance is not. The first remains acutely vulnerable to the second…...
November 28, 2017

Andy Haldane, I am an economist too, but I can still not make head or tails out of your bank regulations. Please enlighten me with BoE’s “EconoMe”!

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Sir, Chris Giles writes that Bank of England’s chief economist Andy Haldane argues that economists must work harder to help the public unde...
November 22, 2017

True bank regulations should also not be like gambling.

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Sir, I refer to Izabella Kaminska’s “ True investing is not the same as gambling ” November 22. But Sir, what did bank regulators do wi...
November 17, 2017

What if banks could earn their highest expected risk adjusted returns on equity where they are most needed, like in Blackpool?

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Sir, I just read Sarah O’Connor’s harrowing description of what is going on in Blackpool “ Left behind: can anyone save the towns the econo...
November 11, 2017

Is allowing banks earn the highest risk adjusted returns on equity with what’s “safe” a nudge, a sludge or a grudge?

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Sir, Tim Harford writes “Nudge, sludge or grudge, we can change this. And we should start by asking ourselves whether when it comes to news...
October 31, 2017

If today Luther protested the high priests in the Basel Committee, where would he nail his Theses? Twitter, Facebook?

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Sir, Kate Maltby writes: “Luther… backed by the painstaking detail of a scholar, took an intellectual stand against the most powerful force...
October 30, 2017

If kicking the can forward does not come with changing what caused the crisis, it will roll back and trample you

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Sir, Wolfgang Münchau writes: “Herein lies the true tragedy of the ECB asset purchases… the ECB may never be able to stop them’, “ An ailin...

If I were a bank regulator, I would set the lowest capital requirements against the loans to young entrepreneurs

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Sir, Leo Lewis writes Tatsuo Yasunaga, the Mitsui & Co chief believes that “The innovation of which he is most proud is a support syste...
October 22, 2017

How much will the fewer younger be willing to give up in order to help the larger number of older?

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Sir, John Dizard argues that It is hard to have a tax cut-driven jobs boom for the ‘real Americans’ if there are fewer of them around” “ Fi...
October 20, 2017

With risk-weighted bank capital requirements promoting risk aversion, Britain will go nowhere, with or without Brexit

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Sir, Martin Wolf writes: “UK’s average productivity is at best mediocre and its productivity growth post-crisis is in the basement, down th...
October 13, 2017

It is the lower capital requirements when lending to AAArisktocracy that stops banks from lending to “The Risky”.

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Sir, Gillian Tett writes about the growing sector of private funds that, instead of banks, are now lending to the “riskier”, like SMEs and ...
October 10, 2017

Beware, nudging, like that done by bank regulators, can have very dangerous unexpected consequences

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Sir, Tim Harford writes: “Professor Richard Thaler’s catch-all advice: whether you’re a business or a government, if you want people to do ...