Economics & Markets

War on Terror II

Since the Paris terror attacks of 13 November it is as if we have awoken from an all too peaceful…

Europe Under Siege

The appalling attacks in Paris in the late evening of Friday, 13 November 2015 will linger in the annals of…

What the Terrost Attack Means for EU Economic Policy

The terrorist attacks that occurred last weekend in Paris will certainly be part of our memories for a long time;…

Cheap Money’s Toxic Legacy

The September edition of the Master Investor magazine was largely dedicated to an examination of how likely interest rates were…

Which theory supports central banks?

The equivalent to cheap money is expensive “everything else”. When money is made abundant while the stock of assets is…

405,000 people could open up an Innovative Finance ISA in 2016

By Dom Wolf, Co-founder of investUP – the crowdfunding supermarket Hot of the press research by the Yorkshire Building Society…

The end is nigh for the old order in commodities

Some thought commodity prices were going to rise forever due to the mismatch between supposedly unlimited demand growth from industrialising…

Post Card from Cyprus

When Swen asked me to get down to Cyprus to cover the olive harvest I thought this would be a…

Is the ECB too close to the private sector?

Yesterday the FT uncovered a series of meetings between ECB policymakers and the private sector that occurred just before the…

Mr Cameron’s Gamble

On 29 October we learnt from the BBC, that the Prime Ministers of both Finland and Estonia (snowy Baltic neighbours)…