New high! (Zzz.)
“The FTSE 100 has at last topped the record it set at the close of 1999. Should Britons celebrate ? Probably not.” – John…
A matter of trust
“Popping down to #guardiancoffee later on to order a ‘Toynbee’: short, rich and intensely bitter.” – Tweet from Robbie Collin (chief film critic, The…
“A more serious disaster later on..”
“Another day, another central bank failure. In a world of currencies backed only by confidence, every failure is masqueraded as success. Like the ballet…
Asset managers or asset gatherers?
“The Bank of England paid nearly £3m of taxpayers’ money for a report on whether any of its staff knew about or were involved…
Puppets pushing on a string
“I don’t think there is a problem that this will fix. I think it will just continue to compress yields into negative territory. If…
Money worries
“I hold all idea of regulating the currency to be an absurdity; the very terms of regulating the currency and managing the currency I…
Beyond satire
“Je ne suis pas Charlie. I am not Charlie, I am not brave enough. “Across the world, and certainly across Twitter, people are showing…
An odd, non-linear world
“Sir, John Authers, in Loser’s Game (The Big Read, December 22), could have delved deeply into the flaws in the asset management business as…
“We hate you guys but there is nothing much we can do”
“Except for US Treasuries, what can you hold ? US Treasuries are the safe haven. For everyone, including China, it is the only option…..