How will the markets respond if Trump’s authority flags further?
Is the Trump Bump over? President Trump’s Washington is paralysed. It has proven impossible to repeal Obamacare and to replace…
7 years ago
Economics & Markets
Climate change: Future-oriented investors need to get on-trend
Climate change is a reality. The glaciers are melting and the sea is getting hotter – with intractable consequences like rising…
7 years ago
Thucydides, Spreadsheet Phil and the coming Crash
An imminent stock market crash is more likely than investors might suppose. My recurrent nightmare this summer, partially informed by…
7 years ago
The Macron Miasma
How does a spendthrift state which consumes nearly 57 percent of its GDP change its ways? How does a regulated,…
7 years ago
The wisdom in books
“If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could…
7 years ago
Can we make money out of renewables?
Thanks to action on climate change at international level, renewable energy (electricity generation by means of solar panels, wind power,…
7 years ago
Austerity – or Catastrophe…?
The minority UK Conservative government is under pressure to loosen the fiscal purse strings. Does that mean the dream of…
7 years ago
At the court of the Emperor Emmanuel
What does the composition of President Macron’s post-election government tell us about France’s likely reform programme? Were the four early…
7 years ago
Mellon on the Markets: The times they are a changin’
I was recently invited to a Conservative Party lunch hosted by the City and Westminster Tory Association. It was a…
7 years ago
How worried should investors be of a ‘crash’ Brexit?
The FTSE-100 has been gliding around the stratospheric 7,500 level. So everything must be alright, then? Not necessarily. The FTSE-100…
7 years ago