Temple Associates

Interesting comment by Bob Prechter about US Banks growing lending to consumers at the expense of lending to business.

We all wonder about the absurdity of some claims about discrimination, unfair treatment etc but one thing appears to be clear: the practice ...

The sorry state of Bayern LB demonstrates that public ownership of banks is no solution to the problem posed by banking supervision. While...

The lack of democratic control is an all-pervasive defect of modern societies. More and more decisions are made by technocrats and a politic...

Not enough that the town is still - despite the collapsing Pound Sterling - expensive, that public transport may not get better in a time sp...

News that Research Affiliates has been granted a US patent for an indexing methodology that selects and weights securities using fundamenta...

Some Commentators are toying with the idea of imposing a windfall profits tax on British Banks. We are not trying to defend what some may co...

When a major bank states that the EU may force 'unforeseen' asset sales alarm bells should be ringing. We have repeatedly stated on ...

Goldman Sachs' Lloyd Blankfein has asked his employees to avoid being seen as big spenders. The jury is out whether this is just a cos...

A middle way to safeguard the utility component of banking and isolate the riskier parts of the business would be to require all investment ...