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
Economics & Markets
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
The Isle of Man: A place where you can
If you ever wanted to get an idea how life could be if there were more pragmatic regulations, a simple…
7 years ago
Aftermath: The millennials are coming after your money
Raking over the smouldering embers of the UK general election, there is one salient theme that speaks to the future.…
7 years ago
UK Election 2017: A comedy of errors
It was the big-budget West End musical that flopped. The “snap” UK general election of 2017 never really had a…
7 years ago
Should you give in to Bitcoin fever?
I just came accross an article on CNBC about a trader from Saxo Bank who predicts that Bitcoin will be…
7 years ago
The Scottish Play: A binary election choice
What's done cannot be undone. William Shakespeare, Macbeth. Here in Scotland, the British general election is a referendum on whether…
7 years ago
Mellon on the Markets: Assume the brace position
In the past month, I’ve been going around the British Isles, talking to groups of people about my research into…
8 years ago