http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/07/06/2133654/china-and-the-delusion-of-control-redux/
Tag: Financial Times
Putting the ‘New Deal’ into climate R&D
http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/06/29/2133106/putting-the-new-deal-into-climate-rd/
“We live in an era when the role of government is being limited to simply ‘facilitating’ and ‘de-risking’ the private sector, fixing market failures, rather than taking a direct role in creating and shaping markets.”
Bitcoin vs. the SEC
Point: Forget money. Bitcoin 2.0 is about to disrupt everything else. Are regulators ready for it?
http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2015/04/bitcoin-money-stock-market-000026
Counterpoint: On the robustness of cryptobonds and crypto settlement
Camp Alphaville videos: Zoltan Pozsar on the shadow banking system
Defaulting on the IMF: a stupid idea whose time had come
The changing nature of Americans’ income
Lawrence Summers on Greece
Greece is Europe’s failed state in waiting – Greece is no longer about numbers. It is about the high politics of Europe
Jeb Bush’s growth goal isn’t outlandish
Jeb wants the US economy to grow at 4 per cent per year.
http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/06/15/2131958/jeb-bushs-growth-goal-isnt-outlandish/
Carbon bubbles and artificial intelligence
http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/06/10/2131503/carbon-bubbles-and-artificial-intelligence/
“Climate change is a problem of insurance. For this, it is not median outcomes that matter most, but the outliers — the “fat tails” of the probability distribution of temperature.”