Category Archives: finances

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The soft underbelly of finances

Posted on April 25, 2013 by trustcontroller

I went out of my comfort zone and had “Brussels for Breakfast”. It tasted good. It was, of course, a meting in the City (with sandwiches and pastry, to be honest), organised by CSFI and devoted to intricacies of financial … Continue reading →

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The lesser evil of trust

Posted on March 28, 2013 by trustcontroller

What if you have two bad choices and you have to choose one? You go for a lesser evil – the one that relatively looks better because it hurts less. What if you have no-one to trust and you have … Continue reading →

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Breaking the bank

Posted on November 22, 2012 by trustcontroller

Actually, breaking several banks by limiting the maximum size of any single bank. That’s the proposition of Fed governor, Daniel Tarullo. He is a very high level official, so that his words bear some weight. A lot of it. There … Continue reading →

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Trust and money

Posted on October 29, 2012 by trustcontroller

Money, of course, do not exist. The are the product of our collaborative imagination and collective trust. We believe in them because we trust others to believe in them as well. If we stop believing, they will cease to exist. … Continue reading →

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In trust we invest

Posted on October 4, 2012 by trustcontroller

Trust Across America released this piece some time ago, on the relationship between trust and market performance. The chart is a very illustrative one: companies selected on the basis of their trust metric systematically beat the market. So, if you … Continue reading →

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