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 risky bay. Show all posts

Showing posts with label risky bay. Show all posts

July 19, 2016

To save the banks the regulators must admit their huge mistakes, and rectify these urgently and intelligently

Sir, Philippe Bodereau, the global head of financial research at Pimco writes: “To prevent… equity volatility [to] temporarily destabilise ...

July 09, 2016

Might economists have spent too much time at their desks and too little on Main-Street to understand risks?

Sir, Tim Harford discusses how economists could have presented their case against Brexit more effectively. In doing so Harford refers to Da...

Where would Philip Tetlock or Robert Armstrong forecast the next bank system-threatening crisis to appears

Sir, I refer to Robert Armstrong’s lunch with Philip Tetlock, ‘It doesn’t matter how smart you are’ , July 9. How I would have loved be...

July 01, 2016

When compared to how risk adverse bank regulation help overcrowd safe havens, Brexit is but a small blip.

Sir, Gillian Tett writes about how the negative-yielding sovereign bond pile keeps swelling and argues that as a consequence “asset manager...

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