Cashless Britain is a disaster waiting to happen
The Bank of England says one in five people consider cash to be their preferred payment method, and use it...
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Why the world should fear a commercial property crash
Since 2020 we have been living with the whole Working From Home (WFH) phenomenon. This has had opposite effects on...
A Lib Dem-Labour coalition would spell disaster for the UK economy
It is true that we cannot read too much into local election outcomes. When voters go to the polls in 18 months' time,...
Europe’s credit crunch will be the next chapter of this banking crisis
To which one can only retort: thank heavens for that.If anything does go wrong – and there is a high...
Half of America’s banks are potentially insolvent – this is how a credit crunch begins
First Republic lends to technology start-ups, but it chiefly came unstuck on commercial real estate. It will not be the...
It is unwise to let Deutsche Bank buy one of Britain’s last investment banks
Numis’s management and shareholders will no doubt be happy enough with the 70pc premium the German lender is paying. Even if...
It is a very long time since I felt so optimistic about UK’s economic future
It is perhaps a minor detail in the blossoming rapprochement between London and EU capitals, but such detail is more...
Why US bank regulation needs a system upgrade
Silicon Valley Bank was in many ways a very modern failure. It was also a symptom of the dramatic changes...
The world economy is on the brink of another disaster and Britain is flailing
There is no doubt about it: the world is undergoing a seismic paradigm shift. After the implosion of the banking...
Tories must reduce tax burden to honour Thatcher and Lawson’s legacy
Hunt’s pitch for the premiership stressed that, as an entrepreneur who made his fortune before politics, he was uniquely placed...
