Showing posts with label subprime banking regulations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label subprime banking regulations. Show all posts
October 03, 2022

Five comments on Patrick Jenkins “Failure to learn lessons of 2008 caused LDI pension blow-up”

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Five comments on Patrick Jenkins “ Failure to learn lessons of 2008 caused LDI pension blow-up ”. Not sent by a letter to the Financial Time...
September 21, 2022

Britannia, to have a chance to become its former self, needs to free its financial systems from its mis-regulators.

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Sir, Martin Wolf asks: “Britannia is not ‘unchained’. It is instead sailing in perilous waters. Can the new captain and first mate even see ...
April 28, 2022

Why does the world ignore regulations that totally disrupt the allocation of bank credit?

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Sir, I refer to Martin Wolf’s “ Shocks from war in Ukraine are many-sided. - The conflict is a multiplier of disruption in an already disru...
March 05, 2022

FT, on banking and finance who are you to believe, Francis Fukuyama or Paul Volcker?

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Sir, Francis Fukuyama in “ The war on liberalism ” FT March 5, writes: “ Liberals understand the importance of free markets — but under the ...
February 18, 2022

How can you hold governments accountable, while their borrowings are being non-transparently subsidized?

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Sir, Aveek Bhattacharya discusses various options to improve the productivity and effectiveness of public spending. “ A future case for the ...
November 02, 2021

The Basel Committee blocks development

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I refer to Aleksandr V Gevorkyan’s “ Small economies require new development model ” November 5. What would FT opine on a development model ...
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...
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 12, 2021

Central banks and regulators cancelled the creative part of destruction.

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I refer to Martin Wolf’s comments on Philippe Aghion, Céline Antonin and Simon Bunel’s “The Power of Creative Destruction”, “ The innovation...
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 16, 2021

Should the Louvre, a homage to inequality, have to be culturally cancelled?

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Sir, I refer to Ruchir Sharma’s “ The billionaire boom ” FT Weekend, May 15. In this case, as so often happens in articles about the wealthy...
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...
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 24, 2021

If our pied-à-terre falls into the hands of a Climate Stability Board, we’re toast.

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Climate change dangers require: Spending fighting it, trying to hinder it  Spending adapting to it, to avoid its worst consequences Saving, ...
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...
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 ...