BankingIll-discipline in the EU ranks could tear the euro apartApril 23, 202455Yet nearly half of EU members breach at least one, or as in the case of France and Italy, both...
EconomyBritain on the edge as memories of Truss refuse to fadeApril 21, 2024252Yet the patient is not responding. If the IMF were sitting in judgment it would have found the Government to...
EconomyNet zero Britain is already hopelessly hooked on ChinaApril 6, 202484No surprise, then, that the EU should be looking closely at following the US into imposing swingeing import tariffs and...
EconomyBasket-case Britain can only look on with envy at Giorgia Meloni’s new ItalyApril 3, 2024176Does this sound familiar? We might not have had so many governments, but here in Britain we’ve had five prime...
EconomyBritain is falling apart, yet Labour offers no answersApril 2, 202476Environmental objections can, however, be just as potent a blockage as any number of Tory Nimbys.Otherwise, it was in vain...
FundsBritain is about to suffer a massive collision with realityMarch 19, 202492I wrote on Saturday about the political paralysis that surrounds any serious attempt to tackle the UK’s multiple economic weaknesses,...
EconomyBritain is mortgaging its future to prop up the presentMarch 16, 2024118As you might guess, there is no silver bullet, no one-size-fits-all approach to economic transformation. But there are perhaps two...
CryptocurrencyBitcoin’s record high means a record crash is inevitableMarch 5, 202466Look beneath the bonnet, however, and you find that the frothiness in markets is quite narrow and well defined. In...
EconomyDebt annihilation is approaching – and neither party is minded to stop itFebruary 3, 202481We’ll match or even better the Tories on fiscal discipline, Labour’s high command repeatedly pledges, which is easy enough to...
EconomyThere is only one cure for Britain’s sickly stock marketJanuary 27, 202479If you’ve got an exciting IPO to market, don’t bother calling on Britain’s largest depository of savings. If it’s not...