It's Not Curtains for Recession Yet
This week, I’m spoiled for choice. I could talk about UK civil servants going on strike, gumming up traffic in most major city centres for a day, and threatening to go on more, to protest against cuts...
View ArticleSorry state of the European Union
We're sitting around a buzzing restaurant table in Bergamo, somewhere in Northern Italy, and chatting about how full the flights into Italy are. So maybe, I say, Berlusconi wasn't wrong when he...
View ArticleIndiana Jones? No, India & the Joneses
I can’t make up my mind whether I should drone on about the eurozone crisis or not. It’s been boring me to tears for over a year now, and now, it seems, it’s boring everyone else too, even though it’s...
View ArticleBond's Back in 'Die Another Day'
The eurozone crisis, which we have been blissfully ignoring during the Olympics and Paralympics, is back with a bang. It never actually went away. Sigh. Why can't the real world get an injection of...
View ArticleIt’s Europe’s North Versus South Moment
When senior fund managers tell me that this is the Archduke Ferdinand moment for Europe, I start to worry. My modern European history is a bit shaky, so I have to look it up. The Archduke Ferdinand...
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