Gillian Tett, FT: America’s six key lessons for a ‘euro Tarp’
For Gillian there are at least six key points, of which the last is good, which Europe needs to consider:
Gillian Tett, Financial Times - Road map that opens up shadow banking
On the 18th of November Gillian Tett, a British author and award-winning journalist at the Financial Times, where she is an assistant editor overseeing the FTs global financial markets coverage, published a market insight on a road map that opens up shadow banking. She wrote:
Gillian Tett, FT: Hollywood's credit crunched
When I was growing up, I often wondered how it would feel to appear in a Hollywood movie. It never seemed very likely: I have spent my career first as an academic, studying the anthropology of marriage rituals in the remote mountains of Tajikistan, and then as an FT journalist, writing about equally specialist subjects such as Japanese banking and collateralised debt obligations (CDOs).
Fool’s Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe
This is an edited extract from ‘Fool’s Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe’ by Gillian Tett. It is published this week by Little, Brown, £12.99, http://www.littlebrown.co.uk/Title/9781408701645 and in mid-May by Simon & Schuster in the US.
Gordon Gekko
Financial Times Insight, by Gillian Tett. Where is Gordon Gekko when you really need him? That is a question many financiers might ask right now. In recent days, politicians on both sides of the Atlantic have railed against the antics of “greedy” speculators – and vowed to clamp down on unbridled risk-taking.
FT Insight: US is ready for Swedish lesson on banks
By Gillian Tett, The Financial Times, March 12, 2009. Next week, Bo Lundgren, the head of Sweden’s debt office who played a central role in resolving his country’s banking mess in the early 1990s, will embark on a striking mission.
Washington’s Congressional Oversight Panel has summoned Mr Lundgren and others to explain how they fixed Sweden’s banks – presumably to glean tips on what Washington should do next.

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