Showing posts with label safe havens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label safe havens. Show all posts
March 05, 2018

In terms of a short-termism that harms the long run, few are as guilty as current bank regulators.

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Sir, Jonathan Ford quote US academic Lynn Stout with “The pressure to keep share prices high drives public companies to adopt strategies th...
February 26, 2018

Bank regulators could derive valuable lessons from pension scheme difficulties.

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Sir, Jonathan Ford while discussing Carillion’s pension schemes writes: “deficit repair should reasonably leave space for the company to fo...
February 23, 2018

Where are the occupational licensing requirements when they are really needed, like in bank regulations?

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Sir, Simon Samuels writes: “A manufacturing company would not be expected to operate without knowing its cost of production. Not knowing ho...
February 14, 2018

To base bank regulations on that ex ante perceived risks reflects the ex post possible dangers, is pure an unabridged naïve over-optimism

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Sir, Martin Wolf writes “Over-optimism is the natural precursor of excessive risk-taking, asset price bubbles and then financial and econom...
November 17, 2017

The safest route for UK might be to take to the seas in a leaky boat, abandoning a safe haven that is becoming dangerously overpopulated.

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Sir, Martin Wolf writes: “A significant generational divide has opened up. Those aged 22-39 experienced a 10 per cent fall in real earnings...
October 01, 2016

More safer drones now- less risky feet on the ground. That’s great for now… but what about tomorrow?

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Sir, Simon Kuper writes: “Every society tries to make the trade-off between security and freedom… According to Google, mentions of “freedom...
July 29, 2016

Banks, to get out of their dead-end street, must make a convincing case they can prosper holding much more capital.

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Sir, James Shotter, Laura Noonan and Martin Arnold write: “At yesterday’s close, investors were implying that the biggest bank in Europe’s ...
July 19, 2016

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

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Sir, Philippe Bodereau, the global head of financial research at Pimco writes: “To prevent… equity volatility [to] temporarily destabilise ...
July 09, 2016

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

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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...
January 23, 2016

Too much fighting for a safe haven dissipates its safety and turns in into a dangerously overpopulated haven.

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Sir, Tim Harford writing on the “dissipation of economic rents” holds that “They’re frustrating, because value is being frittered away in t...