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Commentary on newly proposed UK Financial Regulation
The news headline: Osborne gives Bank of England top regulatory role Our response: Firstly, we are relieved to see no sweeping statements such as abolishing ‘boom and bust’, which by inference must...
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Capricious Markets
The market is capricious. We are paraphrasing a line from one of Bernard Cornwell’s series of historic novels on 9th century England, where he referred to the ‘old gods’ (pagan gods) of the Danes and...
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An Aggregated Challenge
Conspiracy theories! Today we express an opinion on the phenomenon of ‘governmental’ economic landscape shaping. Interference whether actively pursued or via involuntary actions promotes our heightened...
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Risk Management Ideas
Risk has as one of its essential elements TRUST as a foundation. Trust on the other hand has many other factors that interplay and interact on it. Markets are created when there are needs that are not...
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A Storm in a ‘Tea’ cup
Never resist the temptation to start a discussion with a pun. In our previous article we highlighted the ‘battle royal’ on Capitol Hill to get a proposal agreed to address the possibility of a US...
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A sigh of relief?
Some say that in life timing is everything… And so too it is with economics. We don’t yet have a fully developed and ‘mature’ [in terms of life-cycle] grasp of the impact of timing with leads and lags...
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US Treasuries – An FX or a market call?
So it has finally happened. After threatening for months that a credit rating down grade was probable for the USA, Standard & Poor’s finally took the ‘big step’ on Friday 5 August, after the major...
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Get your calculators out
Yesterday the Independent Commission on Banking (Vickers Commission) published its long anticipated, yet low in surprises report on Banking Reform in the UK. See: Rather than rehash the analysis...
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The Ice Age is Cometh
Originally published 4 October 2009: Information Asymmetry is what drives the market. We alluded to this in an earlier blog posting (see Market Responsibility, Saturday, 18 October 2008). Yet we still...
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Do we value everything and understand nothing?
On reflection, the ‘mechanism’ established to rescue or save the Euro is indicative of the fact that we still understand very little and can control and short-circuit systems to some extent, yet we...
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The Big Design: Moral Hazard, and the EU
Irrespective of how the twists and turns of the Greek political system plays out over the next few days and weeks, we believe that the Big EU (Eurozone more specifically) players and their leaders only...
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…and here is some good news…
Adding further value to our conversation on The Market eQuation we introduce the concept of the: RISKed RETURN on MARKET (RdROM) today on 11.11.11. RISKed RETURN on MARKET adds a counter balance to...
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Our Lessons from 2011
We decided to summarise our learning from 2011 into two brief thoughts: Image via Wikipedia The pains and strains of the economic sovereign debt melt-down in 2011, should stand us in good stead to...
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Trust, Risk and stifled Innovation
In the light of the recent Citigroup’s settlement of mis-sold Hedge Fund investments, we issue this brief opinion piece on the interactions of Risk, Trust and Innovation: We don’t think it is so much...
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Pony ponderings…
Have you ever overheard a small debate between children related to #economics? Some at theMarketSoul (c)1999 -2013 find themselves in Spain this weekend, relaxing with family and the following...
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Wake up Britain. You are a #TAX Haven too!!!
Let’s just pause for a moment: #Tax avoidance talk is all the rage at the moment… In order to redress the balance of negative sentiment, combined with a political(ly) charged environment with...
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Tax and morality? The two should never meet…
The language, or rather political language de jour, is for the canvassing potential members of the next parliament (Parliamentary candidates in the UK) to merge two very different concepts into one,...
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