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Ms. Tett notes that many U.S. corporate leaders today think of their companies and employees as being more global than American.

Charles Kolb: The American Business Community's Collective-Action Problem Charles Kolb 2012

A couple of columnists, most notably Allan Sloan of Fortune and Gillian Tett of the FT, served their readers well, but their editors and colleagues stayed silent when speaking out might have made a difference.

Welcome to Britain, a haven for tax dodgers | Nick Cohen 2011

As Gillian Tett of the Financial Times later wrote, “Computing power and high-order mathematics were taking the business far from its traditional bounds, and this small group of brilliant minds was charting the outer reaches of cyberfinance.”

Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011

The Financial Times' Gillian Tett ran through the numbers on the Troubled Asset Relief Program a few months ago and concluded that it was both successful and profitable.

Robert Teitelman: The Reaction to Sloan's Bailout Argument Robert Teitelman 2011

As Gillian Tett wrote in Financial Times, it could be that no one has worked out a good system for cleaning up the baks:

Wonk Room » Did The G20 Ignore The Toxic Asset Issue? 2009

I took a detour from my usual intellectual pursuits at lunchtime yesterday and wandered over to my former workplace at CEPS, to hear the Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett talk about her book, Fool's Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe.

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Gillian Tett on the causes of the financial crisis

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Gillian Tett, given the task of summarising her 350-page book in 20 minutes, presented it as effectively an anthropological study of the small tribe of bankers at J.P. Morgan who invented the credit default swap, in the blind faith that the three deities of globalisation, innovation and market capitalism were infallible.

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I am also fascinated by what Tett calls "information asymmetry"; my job at the moment is effectively ensuring that sensitive information reaches the information-poor in time to affect sensitive political decisions, which is a fascinating process; the role of information poverty in political decision-making doesn't often get taken into account by IR analysts who assume that all actors have access to much the same set of facts.

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Tett added that “this reluctance to debate the issue reflects a desperate attempt to avoid telling taxpayers how much it might really cost to remove the toxic rot.”

Wonk Room » Did The G20 Ignore The Toxic Asset Issue? 2009