02/25/2013
The voice of anti-austerity was loud and clear in Italian elections, delivering the worst-case scenario – a likely hung parliament with no leading party able to put together a workable coalition.
02/24/2013
The current crisis is distinct from previous crisis episodes because this crisis affects a large set of European countries that are highly integrated via trade and financial channels, and, because the magnitude of economic policies implemented is unpreced
02/24/2013
For nearly 40 years, governments in the majority of industrialised countries have conducted fiscal policies based on Keynesian principles: in times of economic contraction, they have increased public spending.
02/24/2013
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge ?
02/24/2013
It was interesting to hear the French moaning about their trains for a change.
02/24/2013
On the reasons he is invested in salmon, and the reasons the price of salmon will remain elevated
02/24/2013
Positive Signs Resonate Worldwide in Early 2013 -RESEARCH
U.S. housing sales, retail sales and job numbers strengthening - Germany, Italy and Spain showing signs of economic improvement - Growth in China expected to exceed 7.5 per cent in 2013 - Canadian investors seeing better returns on equities
02/24/2013
Currencies down = stock markets up
02/24/2013
£1 million in 1982 would provide the same spending power as £3 million today.
02/24/2013
FTI Consulting found that 77% of respondents are optimistic
02/21/2013
And finally…. by George Bull
02/21/2013
Coutts Wealth Watch - Sterling to take a further pounding
Sterling’s sharp fall has outstripped our bearish forecast for the year. And with UK policymakers indicating support for further weakness, we now see the pound falling further, to $1.48 by year end.
02/21/2013
In our opinion the major risk right now for peripheral countries is political. We believe that the current increase in peripheral spreads is temporary and that the trend towards a normalization of financial conditions and structural reforms in the periph
02/21/2013
He suggested that the rate was often "completely made up"
02/21/2013
The financial crisis has been “little more than a blip” for London bankers who were being paid more three years after it hit than before and were more likely to be employed than other workers, a report has found.
02/21/2013
Many people are still not saving enough for old age
02/20/2013
We start 2013 with a slightly more optimistic outlook for the global economy than we had towards the end of last year.
02/20/2013
20% of banks had recouped ‘deferred bonuses’ in 2012
02/19/2013
Mansion Tax - A silly way to tax wealth
Taxing property unlikely to yield much success says one commentator.
02/19/2013
But risk of sovereign defaults lingers and concern about government intervention grows.