Showing posts with label reasoned audacity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reasoned audacity. Show all posts
September 07, 2016

To get our banks back to where we need them to be, we need a complete brand new set of regulators

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Sir, since Patrick Jenkins misses out on the very important question of how our banks got here, it is hard for him to understand where they...
September 05, 2016

Banks had and have little capital, not because of SMEs, but because of what perceived, decreed or concocted as safe.

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Attracta Mooney writes “Rules introduced to shore up bank balance sheets left lenders reluctant to lend large sums to SMEs” “ Fund houses t...
August 06, 2016

We need banks that profit by taking reasoned risks; and that have capital to cover for a good chunk of the unexpected.

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Sir, I refer to Dan McCrum’s and Thomas Hale’s “ Stagnation saps enthusiasm for Europe’s banks ” August 6. It includes contradictory st...
August 18, 2014

Europe, if you want to avoid death by attrition, you need to trust your bankers more than your bank regulators.

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Of course it is tragic when banks collapse because of too much risk taking, usually on something they perceive as absolutely safe. Then, th...
November 20, 2013

Regulation ordering brutish and silly risk avoidance by banks, only guarantees a sluggish future.

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Sir, when you allow banks to hold much much less capital when lending to The Infallible than when lending to The Risky, this allows banks t...
August 10, 2013

What’s wrong with you FT? Are you daft? How many times do I have to explain it to you?

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Sir, in “ Three threats to Europe’s recovery ” August 10, you write “Europe’s main problem remains in its banking system. Impaired balance ...
January 22, 2013

Sorry but “audacity” is not longer a concept that defines the US, or Europe.

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Sir, you title your editorial about Obama’s second inauguration as “ The audacity of experience ” January 22. Sorry but I do not think that...
September 22, 2012

Must Michele Obama explain the causes and dangers of obesity to Ben Bernanke and bank regulators ? And to FT?

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Sir, in your “ Bernanke’s gamble is no free lunch ”, September 22, you mention the possibility of QE’s diminishing returns, which would lea...