Makowski v. Country Wide Bank et al

April 9, 2020

Markets InsightHenry Sanderson

Asia’s car battery sector leaves Europe in the slow lane

...As things stand the gap with China, a country that was also late to the party, is wide....

October 10, 2018

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

beyondbricsCurrencies

This is not an EM-wide crisis — yet

...al....

September 7, 2018

Cordelia Jenkins

Opinion today: How corruption went global

...We followed along with FDR, Eisenhower, JFK, Reagan, Clinton and Bush et. al in their postwar course because we wanted to or had to: there was no alternative worthy of considering or competition....

June 19, 2018

InterviewSocial Media

What impact will Facebook scandal have?

...I have seen no data to show how Facebook and Twitter et al advance happiness or social cohesion....

April 25, 2018

News in-depthFT Alphaville

Guest post: Why ESBies won’t solve the euro area’s problems

...First, Brunnermeier et al use ESBies as a way to deny joint liability among sovereigns....

April 25, 2017

FT Live

Commodities Asia Summit

Enabling decarbonisation in a time of disrupted trade flows

EU economy

Eurozone economists’ survey 2017: Fiscal policy

...I’d set up and capitalise a European debt management agency to create ESBies (the European safe bonds of Brunnermeier et al). I’d set up a eurozone growth capital fund for fast-growing companies....

December 30, 2016

Undercover EconomistTim Harford

Trump, Brexit and prediction in an age of uncertainty

...For a generation or more, in rich countries, both banks and politicians have seemed complicated and not terribly important, so many economists have ignored them....

October 26, 2016

FT AlphavilleSujeet Indap

Liquidity v. Solvency: Caesars edition

April 11, 2016

FT MagazineSimon Kuper

The age of innocence

...Western optimism, prosperity, privacy, security et cetera have since evaporated. The one upside: we’ve become less trivial. Nowadays, lots of westerners have heard of Sunnis and Shiites....

September 4, 2015

ReviewFirstFT

Greek talks collapse, Philae awakes, Neymar v Marta

...Omar al-Bashir was in Johannesburg to attend the African Union summit....

June 15, 2015

FT AlphavilleMatthew C Klein

Do demographics dictate lower returns to capital and faster inflation?

...Unionisation rates in both countries have dropped somewhat since then, but the differential is just as wide as ever....

January 15, 2016

FT AlphavilleDavid Keohane

There really isn’t such thing as a policy independent exchange rate anyway

...Sensible sentences from Citi’s Buiter et al on China’s valuation shock (with our emphasis): This decision by the PBOC is a significant event, even if its implications and motivations are not yet fully clear...

August 18, 2015

FT AlphavilleDavid Keohane

This isn’t the Chinese capital account liberalisation you’re looking for

...That makes China’s leaders v nervous and restricts policy options....

July 17, 2015

beyondbricsCentral banks

Guest post: capital is the key to unlocking Angola’s SMEs

...The study by Bigsten et al in 2003 found that small firms have historically had a significantly greater chance of being rejected by banks than larger firms....

August 18, 2014

FT Live

Future of Asset Management Europe

New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence

FT AlphavilleJoseph Cotterill

Pari passu: judgment day

...No surprise to see GMO et al flag up “impact on third parties” from the start....

June 27, 2013

FT AlphavilleDavid Keohane

Of political power and dual-currencies in Cyprus

...Some post-Cyprus thoughts from Citi’s Buiter et al… first on rolling capital controls and the chances of a new Cypriot pound being forced into existence (our emphasis): The lack of internal convertibility...

April 10, 2013

FT AlphavilleEurozone economy

About that sovereign-bank link we said we’d break…

...Or, as Karl Whelan describes it – Germany et al were saying ‘drop dead’ to not only Ireland with its “legacy” bailout, but also to Spain, because it seemed to say a country would have to be locked out of...

January 14, 2013

FT AlphavilleDavid Keohane

Political blowback from Cyprus

...Citi’s Tina Fordham et al make the point (with the full note in the usual place) that even if the deposit levy, for insured deposits in paricular, is discarded now, there is a very decent chance that a proportion...

March 19, 2013

FT AlphavilleJoseph Cotterill

L’état, c’est plagued by holdouts

...Now here he is on a blast from the past… It’s Allied Bank International v Banco Credito Agricola de Cartago et al....

November 19, 2012

FT AlphavilleJoseph Cotterill

A eurozone safe against, or is it safe for, sovereign holdouts? Part two

...So it’s not surprising that the first response from Buchheit et al is to answer back with bits of the bond contract that suggest sneaky loopholes instead....

February 19, 2013

FT AlphavilleDavid Keohane

Koo, Posen, and other Abenomics dissenters

...Overall, Koo thinks that barring any reckless experiments in monetary policy, Abe et al might actually be able to pull Japan out of its twenty year balance sheet recession....

January 17, 2013

FT AlphavilleDavid Keohane

Carrying liquidity as far as you can

...It comes down to liquidity spirals say Mancini et al: Contrary to common perceptions, all exchange rates experienced a significant decline in liquidity during the financial crisis, especially after the...

September 24, 2012

ReviewLife & Arts

Books of the Year

...Freedman offers a wide-ranging, scholarly and entertaining history of the concept....

November 29, 2013

Global Economy

Support for austerity holds – but with conditions

...Some of the praise came somewhat grudgingly: “While I have little time for [prime minister David] Cameron et al, I have to admit that Osborne has done a brilliant job of – just about – keeping the markets...

January 3, 2012

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