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A dispatch from FT Alphaville’s maritime correspondent
There is no simple solution to monetary governance
Credit scores in America are capricious and unfairly limit access to banking
The assumption that there is a good governance model for who gets to make decisions on money is flawed
Demand for credit may be falling in some areas, but plastic is a different story
...Brendan Greeley is an FT contributing editor. Mark Blyth is a professor of international economics at Brown University....
...Yet, this is what Brendan Greeley argues in “The easy dream of someone else’s dollars” (On Wall Street, December 23)....
The world thinks of treasuries as assets and no other country has been able to produce more sovereign debt than the US
Central bank remains wary of Andrew Brimmer’s proposal that it should take a more active role on credit allocation
History of payments shows there is more to central banking than voting to raise or lower interest rates
We should ask whether creators like banks should face more regulation or pay more in insurance premiums
What a 235-year-old ledger can teach us after a year of chaos in digital money
The proposal is a response with uncertain outcomes to a threat with known and catastrophic consequences
Perpetual gilts would need a dedicated fund to pay them back
Central bank policymakers do not seem to want to find new tools that work
Somehow we have forgotten fully half of what a central bank could do
We are taught that money comes from the nation state. This was never true
...Of course I agree with Brendan Greeley that minting a trillion-dollar platinum coin is “silly” (The Long View, FT Weekend, January 21)....
Crypto aside, consumer finance needs fixing
...Brendan Greeley (The Long View, January 21) is certainly correct that the US Treasury’s resort to the printing press is “no sleight of hand”....
A currency that cannot be corrupted by bad decisions is not what humans really want
At 4.5m, a ‘stitch and glue’ dinghy is the exact opposite of a superyacht. But it’s a happy little daydream regardless
...Brendan Greeley (“Forever is a long time to finance anyone”, On Wall Street, FT Weekend, November 19) misrepresents those British gilts called “consols” as perpetual debt....
Central bank choices will always help some people more than others
...The American priest and author Andrew Greeley once said: “The opposite of Catholic is not Protestant. The opposite of Catholic is sectarian.”...
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