As expected plenty of comment and coverage on this event. I have said for years now as a piece of cynical prophesy that they’ll never be a revolution in Scotland as long as there’s a Glasgow Rangers. Better get this fixed now just in case everyone starts following politics and not football since it’s getting […]
Glasgow Rangers have gone into Administration Read More »
The FTSE100 index is the best known of the Financial Times and London Stock Exchange indices quoted on most UK news broadcasts and newspapers. Stockbrokers and investment managers refer to it when asked about performance or what’s happening generally to the “market”. It’s been in operation since 1984 and represents the 100 largest market capitalisation
The FTSE100 index: Still relevant as an economic indicator? Read More »
“Do you agree that Scotland should be an independent country”, Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond wishes to ask Scots. Let’s have a full and earnest debate. After watching the exchange on the timing of the referendum between him and the British Prime Minister David Cameron it should be a full, frank, detail ladened one too.
The End of the Union or the end of big Alex? Read More »
This disparaging trend was highlighted again in an FT series entitled “Capitalism in Crisis”; featuring alongside other economic concerns for 2012 such as debt and demographics – a disparity that exists in UK FTSE100 companies and most notably in financial services up until 2008/9. Issues like these become political fair game when enough people begin
I have been bearish on the UK residential market since 2003, unable to believe that what was happening between then and 2007/8 was in any way good – or sustainable – for the UK economy. Whilst every other person around me appeared to become a property developer or had a buy-to-let flat or two; I
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Much has been proffered about how the difficult economies and markets will perform during 2012. So much so that contrarian investors may be thinking this could be an interesting year to bet against the common consensus – or not – and if not, it’s an opportunity for the real contrarians to place their bets. I’m
Markets and Particle Physics in 2012: A Thought Or Two For The Year Ahead Read More »
On Monday 12th December the Financial Services Authority reported its findings on the bank’s failings that lead to the public bail-out in the Autumn of 2008.
The Royal Bank of Scotland and the events that led to the government’s bail-out in 2008 Read More »
I have watched both episodes of this recent BBC programme, along with other similar programmes, ever since the collapse and public bail-out of the banking industry in 2008. A lot of what I thought was happening then, or which still needs to happen, as a result of the separation of the retail and investment banking
The BBC’s ‘How the West went Bust’ presented by Robert Peston Read More »
