17 Apr 2013

Scariest Part of Gold Crash?

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Reads a headline but the article forgets to mention what really should scare investors, market professionals and regulators: the fact that t...
11 Apr 2013

German Managers want banking pay limited - but not their own

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A poll conducted by Handelsblatt comes to the conclusion that German Managers favour limiting pay in the banking industry but not in their...

Fed sends Minutes a Day (!) early - the real questions

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In the Lobby-infested cesspool that is Washington it is no surprise to find that the Fed 'accidentally' sent copies of the latest Mi...
10 Apr 2013

Libor - Regulators asleep on the Watch (again)?

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While I have doubts that the alleged or actual manipulations of the Libor rate-setting process really did major harm to anybody it is amazin...
4 Apr 2013

Salz Report on Barclays - another Figleaf for the Establishment

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The lengthy - and ridiculously expensive - Salz Report has to be seen in the long English tradition of conducting expensive and lengthy enq...
3 Apr 2013

No regulators slated for failure

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But HBOS chiefs ' slated ' for failure ( Financial Times ). And anyone thought that there was a proper investigation of banking prob...
2 Apr 2013

Goldman Sachs Liberty Harbor - too close for comfort?

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1 Apr 2013

Another Cyprus Bank Robbery?

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27 Mar 2013

When the state loots the shareholder

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State-sanctioned looting of shareholders becomes the norm in the United Kingdom. First not-so-gentle persuasion was used to force banks to c...
18 Mar 2013

Stalinist Incomes policy - spiteful and arbitrary

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The European (Dis?) Union is on the slippery road to serfdom (Hayek) when professional agitators like Sven Giegold (read his CV carefully, ...