When would we know our financial system is working?
Working with Bartt Kellermann and Selvie Shaqiri to help bring their very successful US format here to the UK. Very interesting session today discussing this brief title – “ From the Ephemeral Quant to the Eternal Coin: Short Term vs. Long Term Considerations…
Working hard to get elected and already finding that the number of speaking engagements is climbing sharply. I’m speaking next week at Battle of the Quants. This is a very popular New York event format which is coming to London…
This week’s ESMA & EBA report, “Principles for Benchmark-Setting Processes in the EU”, garnered headlines such as “EU plots to grab control of Libor from London”. Such sensationalism simultaneously leads to over-reaction and under-reaction. Libor is a known problem, but…
Occupy popped up in London at St Paul’s on 15 October 2011. Ian Harris and I had just released our book, The Price of Fish: A New Approach To Wicked Economics & Better Decisions, trying to ask uncomfortable, impertinent questions…
A visit to the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in the East End of London on a cold February 2011 evening raised some fun musings on “long”. First, some background. The Whitechapel Bell Foundry casts bells, broadly of two types – big…
I was intrigued with a thought about “when did CO2 atmospheric concentrations actually become directly harmful”, i.e. we’d really really have to do something about it as human beings. From here – : “Carbon Dioxide is a powerful cerebral dilator.…
On 15 June 2010, the Real Time Club evening’s proposition for discussion was that new technology will move beyond a facsimile of current exchange to new means of exchange that are better for society as a whole. Future e-money synthetic currencies…
Gresham College – A Short, Personal, Alternative History Professor Michael Mainelli, Gresham Fellow & Trustee [October 2009 – originally written for the Mercers’ Company] Sir Thomas Gresham (1519-1579) traded cloth and linens between England and the Low Countries at a…
Securities & Investment InstituteAnnual DebateMansion House, LondonWednesday, 14 January 2009 “In this current financial environment, more financial regulation is a major part of the solution” For the motion:Dr Vince Cable MPMr Alan Yarrow FSI Against the motion:Professor Michael Mainelli FSIMr…
