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George Osborne has presented himself as the “Iron Chancellor” willing and able to make the tough decisions required to see-through the Torie...

In three short years Angela Merkel has gone from being the Superwoman to the Boggiewoman of Europe.  Having faced down the Euro crisis of 20...

The world economy is a bit like my early love life – long periods or inactivity and boredom interspersed with rare flashes of excitement.  G...

The Greek crisis is about the only story being covered by the financial press.  It’s the perfect seasonal pantomime not unlike Cinderella – ...

In the run up to the credit crunch the market manipulations perpetrated by the world’s largest investment banks are now well known to us.  T...

For the last six years the developed world has been suffering from a chronic shortage of demand: demand for goods, demand and services, dema...

The ending of QE in the US and the fall in the price of oil from over $115 a barrel to under $60 a barrel were the defining economic events...

Mario Drahgi has called for more integration and “sweeping powers” for the ECB to control fiscal policies and efforts to reform the Eurozone...

Seven years on from the start of the Great Recession the slump looks set to go on and on.  Even David Cameron who seldom mentions the econo...

When, in 1948, Mikhail Naimy  wrote “ The more elaborate his labyrinths, the further from the Sun his face” he was already living in a world...