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Big, ugly banks

[Editor’s note: Wynona is a guest blogger and industry insider I’ve recruited to give our blog some bite. Go on, give her some stick, she deserves it.]
Despite the fawning, two-dimensional praise lavished by too many City journalists on yesterday’s results announcement, big is NOT beautiful – not at all. Unless you are on the executive […]

God tips so why not you?

I have just returned from a holiday in America and am now a little closer to understanding capitalism, USA style.
The TV seems to have as many evangelists as A list “celebs”; but both have one thing in common. With an unnerving but blatantly honest “in your face” approach, they make it clear that what counts […]

Inflation can be a Good Thing

I was a very young person in the 1970s, but I can still remember inflation. One year I took a nine month sabbatical from my job to attend University and do a one year higher qualification. When I returned to work my colleagues greeted me with the stunning news that whilst I was away our […]

CONUNDRUM

Conundrum
 
Read the papers – any paper – and what message is flavour of the month? Debt. Personal, horrible, immense and growing debt. And don’t just believe the papers; they all back up their Cassandra like prophesies with Government statistics. As one they scream; “Britons drowning in debt”, “Savings ratio at lowest for decades”, “Energy prices […]