Tracy Alloway

Politicians "inconvenienced" by PEP anti-money laundering rules and denied fancy bank accounts at Coutts being transformed into a populist issue has to be one of the crazier things to happen this year.

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Remember when we were all going to nudge people into making better decisions about *everything*?

What a wild time that was.

Judging Nudging: Understanding the Welfare Effects of Nudges Versus Taxes | BFI While behavioral non-price interventions (“nudges”) have grown from academic curiosity to a bona fide policy tool, their relative economic efficiency remains under-researched. We develop a unified framework to...

You literally predicted the US would be in recession by yesterday.

I wrote an article two years ago pointing out there may be more reasons for large investors to buy longer-dated US Treasuries other than ‘because they expect recession.’

We are not the same.