Pension Pulse (Free subscription) | yesterday
... was living in Budapest when the Nazis invaded Hungary. Meanwhile, the Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett brings an academic background in social anthropology to bear on her observation of bankers, as well as the experience of living and working in Japan during its long battle to extricate itself from a deflationary slump. Graham Turner is also one of the outsiders. In his view,...
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
The latest regulatory headache on Wall Street is the state of the repo market, writes Gillian Tett
Health Care Renewal (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
The global financial melt-down, or great recession, or whatever it will be called was a big surprise in September, 2008, to those of us not immersed in finance. A year later there is an opportunity to at least better understand the events leading up to it. I have managed to read two focused books on aspects of the melt-down, ( House of Cards , by William D Cohan , and Fool's Gold by Gillian...
Global Development: Views from the Center (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
The Financial Times published my letter to the editor last week responding to Gillian Tett’s article “Will sovereign debt be the new subprime?” I elaborated on the risks of increasing public debt in the U.S. and other developed countries, and warned that mere perception of an excessive supply of sovereign debt can reduce the real [...]
Center for Global Development (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
The Financial Times published my letter to the editor last week responding to Gillian Tett’s article “Will sovereign debt be the new subprime?” I elaborated on the risks of increasing public debt in the U.S. and other developed countries, and warned that mere perception of an excessive supply of sovereign debt can reduce the real [...]
trading as wdr (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
... Martin Wolf of the FT, Jeff Randall of Sky News (and still a bit at the Telegraph) and Gillian Tett, also of the FT. The Times had the most journalists in the top 50, with nine, followed by the Financial Times and the BBC – both on six. The BBC was named by the public as their most trusted source of news about business – taking 30 per cent of the vote. The FT was the favourite...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... instead of simply transferring it and have started again. Sovreign debt is now the real problem. Gillian Tett of the FT recently did a good article on it. I am not convinced that governments around the world have done the right thing by pumping trillions into over indebted nearly bankrupt economies. Do we really believe that these governments are going to make the necessaary budget...
