Tea with FT - Stories Contributed
How much transparency can democracy handle?
Financial Markets | Apr 12 2024 17:026
Human pilots and autopilots need to be trusting friends.
Financial Markets | Feb 17 2024 21:5911
Mr. Martin Wolf, what do you mean, is liberalism not broken?
Financial Markets | Jan 15 2024 11:008
#AI ChatGPT - OpenAI: A question on behalf of FT and Martin Wolf.
Financial Markets | Dec 17 2023 18:0129
An adequate response to a Covid pandemic needs more views than what epidemiologists and statisticians can provide.
Financial Markets | Dec 03 2023 20:0294
How long will it take for bank regulators to ask AI regulators for a little favour?
Financial Markets | Jul 17 2023 14:029
A strong national spirit/character is what’s most needed for any preparedness, even against a pandemic.
Financial Markets | Jun 29 2023 18:2214
For our grandchildren sake we must recover the “democratic capitalism” we inherited and lost too much of.
Financial Markets | Jun 27 2023 18:0214
To stand a chance, UK must refrain from imprudent risk-aversion and embrace some prudent risk-taking.
Financial Markets | Apr 18 2023 16:0210
Are British authorities more aware of risks than those in the US? Martin Wolf, dare find out.
Financial Markets | Apr 04 2023 00:0216
Creditworthiness should be grounded on what’s worthy of credit.
Financial Markets | Jan 14 2023 18:027
Britannia, to have a chance to become its former self, needs to free its financial systems from its mis-regulators.
Financial Markets | Oct 26 2022 09:028
Five comments on Patrick Jenkins “Failure to learn lessons of 2008 caused LDI pension blow-up”
Financial Markets | Oct 04 2022 01:023
Why does the world ignore regulations that totally disrupt the allocation of bank credit?
Financial Markets | Apr 28 2022 07:0316
Chile can also set a great example for the developed world.
Financial Markets | Mar 19 2022 09:0312
FT, on banking and finance who are you to believe, Francis Fukuyama or Paul Volcker?
Financial Markets | Mar 05 2022 12:176
How can you hold governments accountable, while their borrowings are being non-transparently subsidized?
Financial Markets | Mar 05 2022 10:229
What if the State of Maryland USA, where I live, was treated by the Fed as Italy is by its EU bank regulators?
Financial Markets | Mar 05 2022 09:435
For inflation, where the money supply goes, matters a lot too
Financial Markets | Feb 27 2022 19:0351
Compared to more than three decades ago, what is the current leverage ratio of our banks?
Financial Markets | Feb 18 2022 20:0318
If we want public debt to protect citizens today and tomorrow, it behooves us to make sure it cannot be too easily contracted.
Financial Markets | Feb 08 2022 18:016
The Basel Committee blocks development
Financial Markets | Feb 03 2022 16:0314
Martin Wolf, again, any good economic plan needs, sine qua non, to get rid of bank credit distorting regulations.
Financial Markets | Oct 19 2021 19:435
Do we know of a display of hubris greater than “risk weighted bank capital requirements”?
Financial Markets | Oct 16 2021 12:033
The history I’ll tell my grandchildren has little to do with Philip Stephens’ history.
Financial Markets | Oct 07 2021 12:036
The main ingredient of any safe pension system is a healthy and sturdy economy.
Financial Markets | Jun 28 2021 01:0314
Spurn bank regulators' false promises.
Financial Markets | Jun 16 2021 22:016
It’s sad when we need to remind regulators to prepare for the unexpected
Financial Markets | Jun 15 2021 12:3310
Bank regulators never considered the unexpected, like a pandemic
Financial Markets | Jun 15 2021 11:3317
Central banks and regulators cancelled the creative part of destruction.
Financial Markets | Jun 14 2021 21:0329
Should the Louvre, a homage to inequality, have to be culturally cancelled?
Financial Markets | May 16 2021 09:2212
The “Parable of talents” is currently quite inapplicable to any wealth tax.
Financial Markets | May 11 2021 11:438
Will this tweet be ignored by FT?
Financial Markets | May 08 2021 19:0320
About Italy, there are serious questions that FT, and others, should not shut out.
Financial Markets | Apr 24 2021 10:0315
No remittances without representation!
Financial Markets | Apr 24 2021 09:0314
If our pied-à-terre falls into the hands of a Climate Stability Board, we’re toast.
Financial Markets | Mar 25 2021 17:036
A new monetary order requires the old regulatory order.
Financial Markets | Mar 25 2021 17:0320
Has Thatcherism run its course, or has Thatcherism been run off its course?
Financial Markets | Mar 08 2021 09:227
Before aiming at any target, central banks must cure their shortsightedness
Financial Markets | Mar 04 2021 16:034
Bank capital requirements or bank leverage allowances?
Financial Markets | Feb 23 2021 09:0312
Basel Committee’s risk weighted bank capital requirements is fodder for our wishful thinking hopes.
Financial Markets | Jan 31 2021 14:433
Macroeconomic theory stands no chance while autocratic regulators distort the allocation of bank credit.
Financial Markets | Jan 28 2021 09:339
What America (and much of the rest of the world) needs is to free itself from the clutches of statist/communist bank regulators.
Financial Markets | Jan 27 2021 12:0312
Restoring healthy economic growth requires, sine qua non, getting rid of the distortions in the allocation of bank credit.
Financial Markets | Dec 15 2020 10:043
What would the Milton Friedman of 50 years ago, have thought of the Martin Wolf of today?
Financial Markets | Dec 09 2020 14:256
Thou shall not sell carbon emission indulgences
Financial Markets | Dec 08 2020 18:454
Could the Basel Committee learn enough from puzzles and poker so as to correct their misinformation?
Financial Markets | Dec 07 2020 08:456
FT you have the manpower to analyze how risk weighted bank capital requirements distort the allocation of bank credit.
Financial Markets | Dec 04 2020 10:044
The need for debt to equity conversions is an inescapable reality
Financial Markets | Dec 04 2020 08:455
12 years since, and yet the true cause of the 2008 crisis shall seemingly not be told
Financial Markets | Nov 30 2020 12:0322
By not asking all the questions that need to be asked, journalists also fail society.
Financial Markets | Nov 09 2020 15:459
Though meteorologists announce rain, regulators allow banks to operate as if the sun shines.
Financial Markets | Oct 26 2020 11:244
Let’s be very wary of Big Tech and Governments forming Big Brother Joint Ventures
Financial Markets | Oct 22 2020 10:456
The most dangerous underlying condition of the US, is that like so many other nations, it has been hit by the Polarization Pandemic.
Financial Markets | Oct 17 2020 14:2516
Risk taking is the oxygen of all development. God make us daring
Financial Markets | Oct 16 2020 14:455
Where would the City of London be if in the 19th Century it had been placed under the thumb of a Basel Committee?
Financial Markets | Sep 30 2020 12:458
Thou shall not sell environmental crimes indulgences
Financial Markets | Sep 15 2020 11:243
Inflation has already returned
Financial Markets | Aug 15 2020 14:0312
The privileged subsidizing of sovereign debt that apparently shall not be named
Financial Markets | Jun 12 2020 14:0410
Free markets were set up to go bad, because of bad bank regulations.
Financial Markets | Jun 08 2020 12:464
The doom loop between government and banks was created by regulators.
Financial Markets | May 29 2020 10:465
Does Martin Wolf’s “The tragedy of two failing superpowers” conform with FT’s beautiful motto of “without favour”?
Financial Markets | Apr 01 2020 16:052
British Museum’s “Currency in crisis: German emergency money 1914 – 1924”
Financial Markets | Mar 29 2020 13:467
Do we have a banking system with banks as they are supposed to be?
Financial Markets | Mar 26 2020 12:263
The coronavirus will unleash a horrific Minsky moment in our bubbled-up debt overextended economies
Financial Markets | Mar 18 2020 12:2696
The seeds of the next debt crisis are to be found in the kicking of the 2008 crisis can forward, without correcting for what caused that crisis.
Financial Markets | Mar 04 2020 09:0519
Any risk, even if perfectly perceived, cause the wrong reactions, if excessively considered.
Financial Markets | Mar 03 2020 05:054
Do we need bankers, as in good loan officers, or bankers, as in creative financial engineers?
Financial Markets | Feb 26 2020 03:252
Never create a dependency on something that might not be able to deliver.
Financial Markets | Feb 20 2020 05:467
Should financing human rights’ violators help fund US pensions?
Financial Markets | Dec 21 2019 12:255
Sir FT, do you, or our dear The Undercover Economist Tim Harford, have an explanation for what is a monstrous regulatory mistake?
Financial Markets | Dec 19 2019 01:471
The bank capital requirements for Greek banks when lending to its government, should be the same as when lending to Greek entrepreneurs.
Financial Markets | Dec 14 2019 21:045
Sovereign borrowings are never “for free”. There are always opportunity costs, especially when there’s so much distortion favoring it.
Financial Markets | Dec 09 2019 10:251
Bank regulators rigged capitalism in favor of the state and the “safer” present and against the “riskier” future.
Financial Markets | Dec 04 2019 10:253
Artistic inheritance does not cause excessive centralized powers, as too often natural resources do...though intellectual inheritance could
Financial Markets | Nov 30 2019 13:479
Beware when issues, no matter how important, like climate change, become discussed because of their distraction value
Financial Markets | Nov 27 2019 09:0474
Current bank regulations are evidence free rather than evidence based
Financial Markets | Nov 16 2019 11:043
If Brexit goes hand in hand with a Baselexit, Britain will at least do better than now.
Financial Markets | Nov 15 2019 09:473
If US’s 50 states had been assigned a 0% risk weight, as was done in the Eurozone, where would America and the US dollar be?
Financial Markets | Nov 03 2019 20:267
Who is going to fact check the political ads on social media fact checkers? Big Brothers?
Financial Markets | Nov 01 2019 20:045
Well-invested small savings surpluses are better than big ones thrown away at fluffy sovereign spending projects.
Financial Markets | Oct 30 2019 14:473
What the Eurozone would need a common budget the most for, is to help rescue many of its members from their huge risky 0% risk weighted sovereign debts.
Financial Markets | Oct 29 2019 20:465
The dangerous distortions in the allocation of credit that risk weighted bank capital requirements cause, is seemingly something that shall not be discussed.
Financial Markets | Oct 07 2019 11:2627
The Basel Committee jammed banks’ gearboxes… not only in India
Financial Markets | Sep 23 2019 11:254
In Banking, the Worst Worse Case Scenario by Far, Is Something Perceived as Very Safe Turning Out to Be Very Risky
Financial Markets | Sep 21 2019 11:2580
For capitalism to refunction, first get rid of the risk weighted bank capital requirements.
Financial Markets | Sep 18 2019 09:252
Warning! Big Tech might be drawn into a too close too dangerous for us relation with Big Brother.
Financial Markets | Sep 16 2019 14:043
Expert technocrats, like those in the Basel Committee, can be shameless and dangerous populists too.
Financial Markets | Sep 16 2019 08:462
Anything your political correct populist can do mine can’t do better; mine can do populism better than yours.
Financial Markets | Sep 15 2019 15:2419
What a pity Martin Weitzman did not chair the Basel Committee for Banking Supervision. If he had we would surely not have suffered the 2008 crisis.
Financial Markets | Sep 14 2019 13:251
Two regulations will turn the beautiful dream of the European Union into a nightmare.
Financial Markets | Sep 13 2019 09:255
Ms. Gillian Tett, what is that we really have, capitalism or statism?
Financial Markets | Sep 07 2019 10:4611
Regulators instructed banks to compete with small savers and insurance companies for whatever was perceived as safe.
Financial Markets | Sep 07 2019 10:463
How can Eurozone’s sovereigns’ debts, not denominated in their own national/printable fiat currency, be considered 100% safe?
Financial Markets | Aug 28 2019 18:463
With respect to Eurozone sovereign debts, European banks were officially allowed to ignore credit ratings.
Financial Markets | Aug 22 2019 12:476
Risk weighted bank capital requirements are anathema to neoliberalism
Financial Markets | Aug 19 2019 10:482
Regulators forced banks into what’s perceived safe, thereby forcing the usually most risk adverse into what’s perceived risky.
Financial Markets | Aug 15 2019 22:474
In 1988 one year before the Berlin Wall fell another wall was constructed, one which separated sovereign and private bank borrowings.
Financial Markets | Aug 15 2019 19:2510
Venezuela needs to extract its oil much more than what it needs Citgo.
Financial Markets | Aug 12 2019 22:464
Any new IMF managing director should at least know, as a minimum minimorum, that two current important financial policies are more than dumb.
Financial Markets | Aug 12 2019 08:462
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