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Mon, 02 Nov 2015
What's the Point of the Financial System?
# 19:45 in ./general

This is a question John Kay asks in his recent Google Talk, answering with four things he thinks it should be for e.g.

  • Payment system
  • Wealth management
  • Risk mitigation
  • Capital allocation

An ironic point he makes is that the current structure and incentives in the financial system is such that far from mitigating risk, it massively increases it. A depressing thought is that it will take the next crisis for us to move to properly fix the system.

This 40-odd minute talk is worth your time :


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