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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...

No one really understands it and because of this opinions are all the more divided and intransigent. Despite this incoherence the market has...

There is now a sense of gloom that pervades the corridors of power in the developed world, six years on from the Lehman Brothers' defaul...

The IMF have made some interesting pronouncements over the last few years – having missed the credit crunch and the “great recession” that f...

In 2010 the Tories had plan A, deficit reduction, and by and large the British public bought the idea, which was simple, “We have to cut the...

Prior to the union with England Scotland had a long and glorious tradition of following the wrong leader and creating the wrong alliances an...

Some time ago I posted a short piece entitled Austerity may be Wunderbar , the simple message in this blog was that Germany was the proble...

The doves at the Fed led by the chief "cooer" Janet Yellen have found a new reason to keep interest rates at an historical low. ...