That Qatar Fundraising Was Fine – Barclays Not To Be Charged
It would appear that the saga is over. Barclays is not to be charged over the Crash induced refinancing they gained from Qatar. That...
NatWest Isn’t Being Prosecuted For Money Laundering
We're about to be bombarded with insistences that the law needs to be changed for a bank has been found to be money laundering....
Today’s Harmful Idiot Is Frances Coppolla
It may well be that you don't like what a market price tells you. That doesn't mean that you can - no, not should...
Up Lyft-ing
We’ve commented from our pit here about the arrival on the stock market of app-based ride-hailing companies. You may even have seen the promotion...
We Will Get The Bonfires Of Red Tape, Huzzah!
Perhaps not enough red tape will get put on that bonfire because they're only talking of the one sector here. But the journey of...
Laurence Kotlikoff On What Really Produced The Recession And Crash – No, Not Bad...
It's not necessary to entirely agree with this analysis to grasp and agree with the underlying point being made. It was the structure of...
IMF Warns That Regulation’s Great – As Long As Banks Don’t Escape It
It does rather depend upon who you read here over the IMF's latest warnings about debt, the next downturn and the final crumbling of...
Wondering whether an idea is actually correct or not
There's an idea out there which seems intuitive but then so many ideas do seem that way. It;s whether they actually hold up in...
Central Bankers May Blow, But They Suck At It
AESOP wrote in the 6th century BC about the North Wind and the Sun competing to remove a traveller's cloak from his back.
The more...
With Lookouts Like These…
Jeremy Warner of the Telegraph has a stark warning for us.
"If you are coming off an interest rate of just 0.1pc, the effect on...