Archive for July, 2015
Why inequality is such an obsession
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16 Jul 2015Since this is my last blog post for Fundweb allow me to indulge a little. I want to try to unravel a debate that has increasingly preoccupied policymakers, as well as myself, in recent years. That is the discussion of excessive inequality. The arguments on the subject can be incredibly frustrating because they are often at cross-purposes. […]
- Tags: economics, finance, Fund Strategy, inequality
Democracy in America
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12 Jul 2015I will be introducing a discussion of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America at the Institute of Ideas Economy Forum on Wednesday evening. Details can be found here. .
- Tags: America, book, inequality, speeches
Comparing China and the West
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12 Jul 2015There follows my Fund Strategy Polemic column for July. For all the talk of a possible bubble in US technology stocks, the rise in the Nasdaq over the past year is dwarfed by the surge in the Shanghai and Shenzen stockmarket indices. Draw lines on the same graph representing percentage change over the past year […]
Multimedia links
10 Jul 2015The debate on social justice I participated in this week at the City of London Festival is now available to listen to as a podcast. It is also appropriately topical that my debate on European austerity from last year’s Battle of Ideas is now available to watch on video.
- Tags: development, environment, Europe, inequality, radio, speeches, television, Worldwrite
A crack in the global order
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3 Jul 2015While most European eyes are focused on Greece’s economic turmoil a potentially more significant development is unfolding on the other side of the world. In Beijing delegates from 50 countries have recently attended the signing ceremony of the new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. The bank will lend billions of dollars to help develop Asian infrastructure but […]
- Tags: America, china, development, economics, finance, Fund Strategy
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