Wednesday, Feb 8th 2012
John Kay | The war on moral hazard begins at home
It is not possible for one country, even the US, to impose restructuring of the global financial system on its own, and not sensible to try. A business such as HSBC or Standard Chartered, which operates globally, can migrate if its lead regulator imposes burdensome [...]
Do not be confused. The Government’s recently announced increase in electricity prices through the Public Service Obligation levy (PSO) is a tax, pure and simple. And it’s a very bad tax.
The PSO levy subsidises electricity suppliers who are required to purchase electricity from renewable and peat-generated sources. This is because the costs of electricity from [...]
The arrival of Matthew Elderfield a.k.a. The Financial Regulator a.k.a. The Regulator a.k.a. The Sheriff of Dodge City has been universally heralded by the media and political establishment as the second coming of Christ. Well, the Christ of ledgers, calculators and informal speeches at the Financial Services Ireland Conference anyway.
At a time when public sector workers and government are almost [...]
The ALTER-EU coalition today, April 26th, sets out its road map for greater transparency and accountability in the European Union with the publication of a new book: Bursting the Brussels Bubble - the battle to expose corporate lobbying at the heart of the EU.
The book, written by some of the leading transparency campaigners in the [...]
Thinking Allowed | White Collar Crime 2 - The Regulators
Laurie Taylor continues his excellent Thinking Allowed series on white collar crime. As a former professor of criminology Taylor brings a professional interest to a fascinating topic and in this edition looks at corporate crime and the regulators who are supposed to police it. In the [...]
