Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister
Kevin Dowd My good friend and co-author Martin Hutchinson has just had a published a blisteringly brilliant biography of Britain’s greatest Prime Minister. The…
Read MoreKevin Dowd My good friend and co-author Martin Hutchinson has just had a published a blisteringly brilliant biography of Britain’s greatest Prime Minister. The…
Read MoreAs the UK economy enters the COVID-19 downturn, the Bank of England (BoE) continues to maintain that the UK banks are strongly capitalised. The…
Read MoreEumaeus is pleased to release our report Can UK Banks Pass the COVID-19 Stress Test? on the dire state of the UK banking system as the…
Read MoreMy report on the Bank of England’s latest (November 2018) stress tests was published by the Adam Smith Institute on August 3rd. The purpose of the stress tests…
Read More“… equally efficacious, and equally a hoax.” – Benjamin Disraeli, 1848[1] One of the highlights of the U.S. summer for Fed watchers is the annual ritual…
Read MoreMartin Hutchinson and Kevin Dowd* * Hutchinson (karlmagnus.aol.com) is the author of the Bear’s Lear column, http://www.tbwns.com/category/the-bears-lair/. Dowd (kevin.dowd@durham.ac.uk) is professor of finance and…
Read MoreThe Bank of England’s 2016 stress tests are literally incredible. Of the seven big financial institutions covered in the exercise, only one (RBS) failed…
Read MoreThe Bank of England repeatedly reassures us that its stress tests demonstrate the resilience of the UK banking system. Well, let’s put the…
Read MoreIt is generally acknowledged that high bank leverage was a key factor contributing to the severity of the Global Financial Crisis. For the UK,…
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