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Adair Turner on Credit, Money, and Leverage

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Check out today’s Financial Times, where Gillian Tett picked up on Institute Senior Fellow Adair Turner‘s recent speech to the Stockholm School of Economics:

As investors try to fathom what the Fed will (not) do next, it is worth pondering a timely speech made recently by former UK regulator Lord Turner. As he told Swedish economists last week, and repeated to central bankers and economists in London this week, the real story behind the recent dramatic financial sagas – be that the market dance around QE or the crisis at Lehman Brothers five years ago – is that western economies have become hooked on ever-expanding levels of debt.

Until this situation changes it is delusional to think that anyone has really “fixed” western finance with post-Lehman reforms, or created truly healthy growth, Lord Turner insists….what makes Lord Turner’s contribution notable is that until recently he was sitting at the centre of the global financial system – and post-Lehman reform process – he now thinks is so flawed. And from that perspective he points out some curious contradictions…

Read more at the FT and download the speech and presentation slides below

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Source: http://ineteconomics.org/blog/institute/adair-turner-credit-money-and-leverage


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    • stonewall

      Sods —– Law.
      February.—- 2014.

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      Two yorkshiremen both running their own small family businesses trying to resolve the problem by taking all the correct legal procedures to recover their monies.

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      Richard Alderman the SFO boss —- who responded to our letter was the same man who would not investigate the “ Madoff” scandal or the “Libor” fiasco.
      The MP’s committee —- said he was sloppy— and the SFO was run like “ Fred Karno’s Circus” —– it was an office of fraud.—– so there.

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      A few years later we learned that one of the judges in our case at the Court of Appeal was related to a senior executive of the Pictet Bank —–so there.

      Pictet & Cie .Bank — voted private bank of the year 2013.
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      MONTY RAPHAEL.Q.C. — Peters & Peters.London. They were the banks lawyers.
      Monty Raphael.Q.C. along with Ivan Pictet withheld crucial documents requested by the High Court —- the FSA —- and the police Fraud Squad. —-so there.

      Monty Raphael.Q.C. became an Honorary Queens Counsellor in March. 2012.
      Monty Raphael.Q.C. became a Master of the Bench in Nov.2012.
      An expert in Fraud —the Doyen of Fraud Lawyers. —– so there.

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      It appears that crimes in the “establishment.” are honoured by their peers.
      “HONOUR AMONG THIEVES.”

      Full Story.—- “google or Yahoo”

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