Archive for July, 2013
On holiday till early August
In: Uncategorized
19 Jul 2013Barring a huge development of some kind I am not planning any more posts till early August.
Spiked article on bank bashing
19 Jul 2013My latest spiked article is a critique of the bank bashers: from David Cameron to UK Uncut: The full text is below. There is at least one area where mainstream politicians can legitimately claim considerable success: they have offloaded much of the blame for the economic crisis from themselves and on to banks and other […]
- Tags: Britain, finance, media appearances, spiked
Eurozone banking union stumbles
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18 Jul 2013The eurozone seems to have stumbled over one of the most fundamental elements of its plan to create a more integrated economic bloc. Its plan for banking union is making exceedingly slow progress. Last week the European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, announced its plans for a Single Resolution Mechanism for eurozone […]
- Tags: Europe, finance, Fund Strategy, Germany
Protest wave lacks politics
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17 Jul 2013This is my Perspective column from this week’s Fund Strategy magazine. There are several factors behind the sharp fall in the price of emerging market debt since its peak in early May. No doubt all the talk of tapering by America’s Federal Reserve has played an important role. A reduction in liquidity from America’s central […]
- Tags: development, economics, Fund Strategy, inequality
Newsmax interview on the eurozone
15 Jul 2013David Nelson of Newsmax television recently interviewed me on the plight of the eurozone. A link to the interview, along with an accompanying article, can be found here.
Tax havens under attack
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10 Jul 2013This is my latest cover story for Fund Strategy magazine. It is written mainly from the perspective of British taxpayers and investors. I hope to write a more political article covering some of the same themes before too long. Until recently investors could make a cardinal distinction between tax evasion and tax avoidance. Evasion was, by definition, […]
- Tags: America, Britain, Europe, finance, Fund Strategy, inequality
EU debate still needs resolution
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8 Jul 2013Those who think the stabilisation of the markets means that difficult questions about the European Union have been solved are naïve. On the contrary, some of the most fundamental debates about the EU remain unresolved. Understanding the nature of European institutions means divining the forces driving integration. One of Europe’s most astute political commentators argued […]
- Tags: Europe, finance, Fund Strategy
The limits of Japan’s Abenomics
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3 Jul 2013This is my Perspective column from this week’s Fund Strategy magazine. A hard landing in China is uppermost in the minds of equity fund managers and second is fear at the failure of Japan’s experiment in Abenomics, with monetary expansion a central plank While the prospect of “tapering” by America’s Federal Reserve has prompted much […]
- Tags: Asia, economics, finance, Fund Strategy
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