Showing posts with label risk weighted. Show all posts
Showing posts with label risk weighted. Show all posts
February 18, 2022

Compared to more than three decades ago, what is the current leverage ratio of our banks?

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Sir, Martin Wolf, in FT on July 12, 2012, in “ Seven ways to clean up our banking ‘cesspit ’” opined: “Banks need far more equity: In settin...
October 18, 2021

Martin Wolf, again, any good economic plan needs, sine qua non, to get rid of bank credit distorting regulations.

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Sir, I refer to Martin Wolf’s “ Without an economic plan, patriotism is Johnson’s last refuge ” FT, October 18, 2021 In Martin Wolf’s Econom...
October 01, 2021

The history I’ll tell my grandchildren has little to do with Philip Stephens’ history.

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Sir, Philip Stephens writes: “Twenty-five years ago… the world belonged to liberalism. Soviet communism had collapsed. Historians will recor...
July 01, 2021

Do we know of a display of hubris greater than “risk weighted bank capital requirements”?

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Sir, Gillian Tett in “ Economists can’t predict the future — policy should reflect that ” July 1 wrote: “Robert Rubin, Peter Orszag and Jose...
June 16, 2021

Spurn bank regulators' false promises.

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Sir, Martin Wolf makes a good case for “We should not throw liberal trade away for the wrong reasons and in the wrong way”, “ Spurn the fals...
June 10, 2021

Bank regulators never considered the unexpected, like a pandemic

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Sir, Angela Merkel, Justin Trudeau and Erna Solberg opine: “The Covid-19 pandemic has taught us that the costs of prevention and early respo...
May 25, 2021

It’s sad when we need to remind regulators to prepare for the unexpected

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“The time to prepare for the next threat is now”, that’s how Bill Emmott ends his “ How to build global resilience after the pandemic ” FT, ...
May 11, 2021

The “Parable of talents” is currently quite inapplicable to any wealth tax.

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Sir, I refer to “ Why the toughest capitalists should root for a wealth tax ” Martin Sandbu, FT, May 10. Much of the current wealth is the d...
May 08, 2021

Will this tweet be ignored by FT?

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How much hubris is needed for regulators to impose risk weighted bank capital requirements, as if they know what the risks are? How much wis...
April 22, 2021

About Italy, there are serious questions that FT, and others, should not silence.

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Sir, I refer to “ Draghi plots €221bn rebuilding of Italy’s recession ravaged economy ” Miles Johnson and Sam Fleming, and to “ Europe’s fut...
March 23, 2021

A new monetary order requires the old regulatory order.

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I refer to Chris Watling’s “ Now is the time to devise a new monetary order ” March 19. Sir, it is hard for me to understand how Watling, co...
March 08, 2021

Has Thatcherism run its course, or has Thatcherism been run off its course?

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Sir, Martin Wolf asks “once we accept that Thatcherism has run its course, what follows?” “ Sunak takes an axe to Thatcher’s low-tax ideolog...
March 03, 2021

Before aiming at any target, central banks must cure their shortsightedness

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Sir, I refer to Martin Wolf’s “ What central banks ought to target ” FT, March 3. With risk weighted bank capital requirements, the regulato...
February 23, 2021

Bank capital requirements or bank leverage allowances?

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Martin Wolf referring to Windows of Opportunity by David Sainsbury writes that growth is “exploiting new opportunities that generate endurin...
January 31, 2021

Basel Committee’s risk weighted bank capital requirements is fodder for our wishful thinking hopes.

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I refer to Tim Harford’s “ From forgeries to Covid-denial " On how we fool ourselves: Whether believing implausible statistics or falli...
January 28, 2021

Macroeconomic theory stands no chance while autocratic regulators distort the allocation of bank credit.

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Sir, in reference to Martin Sandbu’s “The revolutions under way in macroeconomics ”, January 28, I must ask: What macroeconomic theory stand...
January 27, 2021

What America (and much of the rest of the world) needs is to free itself from the clutches of statist/communist bank regulators.

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Sir, Martin Wolf, opines that “Joe Biden may be a last chance for US democracy” “ Competency is Biden’s best strategy ” January 27.  Oh, if ...
December 14, 2020

Restoring healthy economic growth requires, sine qua non, getting rid of the distortions in the allocation of bank credit.

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Restoring healthy economic growth requires, sine qua non, getting rid of the distortions in the allocation of bank credit.Sir, Martin Wolf w...
December 09, 2020

What would the Milton Friedman of 50 years ago, have thought of the Martin Wolf of today?

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Sir, I refer to Martin Wolf ‘s “ Friedman was wrong on the corporation ” December 9. Wolf writes that among his contributions to the ebook M...
December 06, 2020

Could the Basel Committee learn enough from puzzles and poker so as to correct their misinformation?

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Sir, I refer to Tim Harford’s “ What puzzles and poker can teach us about misinformation ” FT Weekend December 5. When deciding on what’s mo...