Posts Tagged ‘finance’
Upcoming Australian tour
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21 Feb 2012I will be speaking at several events during my upcoming Australian tour. This is a listing of those open to the public: One Just World forum on “closing the poverty gap”. 6.30pm, Friday 9 March at Hamilton Public School in Newcastle, NSW. Europe’s Existential Funk: An examination of a continent in crisis. 6pm-8pm, Monday 12 [...]
- Tags: Australia, Europe, finance, inequality, speeches
Contribution to new book on London
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13 Feb 2012I have contributed a chapter to London After Recession, a collection on the impact of the economic crisis on the city, which is due out in August.
Banks pushed both ways
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6 Feb 2012This is my latest Perspective column for Fund Strategy. It deals with capital adequacy in banks so it is more wonkish than usual. However, it is an important topic for those trying to grapple with contemporary economics. Being vilified as greedy is far from the most tricky problem facing bankers at present. They are also [...]
- Tags: economics, finance, Fund Strategy
Forget fairness
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30 Jan 2012This is my latest Perspective column for Fund Strategy. “That’s so unfair”. The familiar shriek of teenagers when exasperated by their parents. Politicians also seem to have taken it up with fervour when discussing contemporary capitalism. Earlier this month the leaders of both Britain’s main political parties were at it. David Cameron, the prime minister, [...]
- Tags: economics, ethics, finance, Fund Strategy, inequality
Eurozone impact on world economy
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23 Jan 2012This is my latest Perspective column for Fund Strategy. What is the impact of the eurozone crisis likely to be on the rest of the world? Much commentary in recent months has focused on the 17 countries that use the euro but relatively little has discussed the broader effect of the region’s woes. There are [...]
More money fetishism
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22 Jan 2012The extent to which the current crisis is being explained as a consequence of the timeless problems of finance is astounding. There is of course nothing inherently wrong with studying the history of money. But it is a mistake to draw sweeping conclusions about the economy as a whole based solely, or even largely, on [...]
America’s sovereign crisis
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20 Jan 2012This is the final box from my recent Fund Strategy cover story Just as the eurozone crisis is not all about sovereign debt it is wrong to see the Lehman Brothers collapse as just a banking crisis. Too many people see the problems that erupted on Wall Street in 2008 as entirely the fault of [...]
- Tags: America, economics, finance, Fund Strategy
A guide to euro financial jargon
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19 Jan 2012This is a box for my recent Fund Strategy cover story. I will paste the final box tomorrow. Bazooka. Popular term for a large sum of money used to underpin a bail-out of troubled national debt. European Banking Authority (EBA). The EU’s London-based banking regulator. Responsible for such tasks at the stress testing of EU [...]
- Tags: environment, Europe, finance, Fund Strategy
Text for eurozone cover story
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18 Jan 2012This is the main text for my recent Fund Strategy cover story included links to the articles cited (see 16 January post). I will paste the text for the boxes over the next couple of days. The eurozone financial crisis is usually seen as one of sovereign debt as opposed to the banking crisis that [...]
- Tags: economics, Europe, finance, Fund Strategy
Cover story on RCM
17 Jan 2012My Fund Strategy cover story on eurozone banks appeared on the Real Clear Markets portal yesterday.
- Tags: Europe, finance, Fund Strategy, media appearances
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