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’Plotting a disorderly EZ break-up
Will the eurozone survive? If so, in what guise? If not, how will it be broken up and what might the consequences be?
These, among others, are some of the key questions currently occupying the minds of the financial great and good.
The history and future of banking, according to Andy Haldane
Andy Haldane’s latest speech is a coherent, logically argued history of modern banking that ends with four intriguing policy ideas. The Bank of England’s Executive Director, Financial Stability, is always worth reading but his Wincott Annual Memorial Lecture,
Further further reading
For the commute home, where your kids are tagging embarrassing pictures of you on Facebook,
- The Economist halts production for a month to let its readers catch up. (Or so says America’s finest news source.)
- The myth of the Fed’s “unprecedented”
Martin Wolf v Stephen Roach on US-China relations
Who’s more opinionated? Tough call, when it’s Morgan Stanley’s Stephen Roach up against the FT’s Martin “Two Brains” Wolf on the small matter of US-China relations and the outlook for China’s currency policy.
Introducing the Wolfexchange…
This one slipped us by over Easter: Martin Wolf has a new online home on FT.com – Martin Wolf’s Exchange.
Martin promises to post, on a fortnightly basis, on a subject that’s he currently thinking about and to invite wider discussion.
John Kay: ‘Too big to fail’ is too dumb to keep
The FT columnist has weighed into the debate over whether big banks should be broken up. Extract:
“The governor of the Bank of England is one of the few public officials to have grasped that the primary purpose of regulation is to protect the public,
Niall Ferguson fights back
There have been economic spats before (Rogoff versus Stiglitz comes to mind), but a new one is definitely brewing in the shape of the tit-for-tat currently raging between Harvard’s Niall Ferguson and Princetonian Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman,
Lex versus Wolf
It’s a while since we’ve heard from The Epicurean Dealmaker. Maybe he’s retired, hurt.
But this should fix that – a snap blog at FT.com to debate the vexed issue of bankers’ bonuses.
Martin Wolf’s opening salvo is here – itself a reaction to a Lex note penned by FT Alphaville escapee Helen Thomas
And now everyone’s on the case:
What the economists say – US financial sector regulation
Over at FT’s Economists’ Forum some of the world’s finest economic minds debate lucidly, if lengthily, on the issues raised in columns by Martin Wolf and economics contributors such as Larry Summers and Willem Buiter.