Showing posts with label Gordon Brown. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gordon Brown. Show all posts
30 January 2013

The Iceman Cometh

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It is good to know that the personal is still political, because a major international finance story has linked very closely with my own l...
16 May 2011

Something rotten?

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To the plethora of three-letter acronyms that infest the discussion of finance has been added another. Alongside the CDO and the CDS we now ...
26 November 2010

Merkel Confronts the Market Wolves

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Throughout the years of financial crisis it has been notable that financial and business interests have been writing the story. Media analys...
16 October 2008

Hero or Heroin

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I'm sure Gordon Brown was secretly delighted to have been compared with Flash Gordon at a recent press conference. Given his recent shad...
11 July 2007

Hell fire or a bottle of Bulgarian red on the beach?

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The early industrial workers were faced with a stark choice: a joyless life of work or an eternity of hellfire. It is unsurprising that so m...
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1 July 2007

New Labour's Puritan Agenda

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It was the 19th-century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard who said that the more insane and irrational a proposition the more faith is re...
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24 January 2007

Bank money: source of debt and destruction

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A bank charter is literally a licence to print money. Since the system of requiring a certain proportion of assets to be kept on reserve has...
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