Comment and analysis in the FT on Monday,
The Real Deal: Lina Saigol
Wax up your skis, Bob. The opportunity of a lifetime may be careering down a piste near you soon. UBS needs to be rescued, and who better to do it than Barclays’ Bob Diamond?
Lex: Confidence tricks and faith in markets
The bedrock of any transaction is faith but faith in markets themselves is now under strain. After almost three decades in which deregulation has flourished, the case for free trade is faltering while regulatory resurgence is building.
Clive Crook on banks (again) and regulation
Securitisation demands new liquidity standards and higher capital ratios. Whether you call that ‘stricter regulation’ or ‘keeping regulation up to date’ is semantic.
Tony Jackson on Monday: Investment banks
Might the banks be close to turning the corner, and further out, might the threat of regulation turn out to be empty?
Wolfgang Münchau on central banks and house prices
Wicked advice from the IMF: why central banks should “interpret existing mandates more flexibly” and worry about more than just inflation.
John Dizard’s View from the US: shoving assets in the drawer
Which price is the right price? Firms are working overtime to game the accounting.
Economists’ Forum: The Fed is blameless on the property bubble
The ‘Span strikes back: Alan Greenspan’s “response to my critics” concerning housing bubbles, complete with critiques from his peers.