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Are tri-party repos a safer investment?

June 19, 2013 by Magnus Lind

The corporate sector is swamped with cash. What else can be expected when the new financial regulation aims to push risks out of the banking system onto the real economy? Do not blame the bankers for not lending, blame the policy makers for forbidding them to. What the crisis has learnt us is that we…Full article

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  • Bank of England outspoken: Bond market bubble can burst

    June 18, 2013 by Magnus Lind

    I like Bank of England, they are very professional, have high integrity and are business friendly. Andrew Haldane, Bank of England director of financial stability, recently met a group of British members of parliament (read more in Business Insider). Here is an extract from the article quoting Andrew: “If I were to single out what for…Full article

    Who is responsible for the poor economic performance?

    June 13, 2013 by Magnus Lind 2 comments so far

    The EU parliament and commission and other entities put the blame on the banks for the deterioration of the economies and whatever else that can withdraw attention from their own responsibilities. One example is this article discussing fraud in fixing official currency and interest rates. EU and UK are fighting over the control over the financial industry….Full article

    Growth requires deregulation and focus on business

    June 11, 2013 by Magnus Lind

    We’ve had two separate policy responses from the financial crisis. Firstly monetary easing and expansion of the monetary base (“money printing”) and secondly over regulation. None of these responses have any chance to create growth. Monetary expansion only provides more money, not more production and business, especially since the over regulation is stopping lending to…Full article

    Anti-Money Laundering getting silly

    June 10, 2013 by Magnus Lind

    Treasury Peer has this year activated PayPal to receive payments through credit cards. PayPal works fine but is sometimes overly complicated. The main complication is regulation of some sort. One of the silliest yet is that the limits for receiving funds are set so low and one may wonder why. What is the purpose? This…Full article

    Limited or no liability

    June 3, 2013 by Magnus Lind

    I recently received a comment from a regulator after I published the new olive oil regulation. The regulator claimed that since the private sector usually acts in legal entities with only limited liability, the regulators must constantly increase regulation, to support citizens and consumers. Of course this is correct, we the citizens need this protection…Full article

    fiat currencies and gold

    May 30, 2013 by Magnus Lind 1 comment so far

    How much printing can a fiat currency survive? When does the trust in a currency deteriorate? What happens with long term interest rates when expectations of inflation are growing as a consequence of money printing? How did the fiat currencies (Germany, Latin America and Zimbabwe for instance) crash? Here is an article that I presume…Full article

    Sweden aims to become business friendly

    May 26, 2013 by Magnus Lind 1 comment so far

    Last week Anders Borg, the treasurer of Sweden, announced that the Swedish government has engaged the World Bank to provide a report stating what Sweden needs to do to become more business friendly. Well, guess he needs an “independent” party like the World Bank to state the obvious and what Sweden’s entrepreneurs and corporate sector already…Full article