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Less is more 23 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
“Cecily, you will read your Political Economy… The chapter on the Fall of the Rupee you may omit. It is somewhat too sensational.” – Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest Distance lends perspe...
There can be only one 16 Aug 2013 | 08:40 pm
“In democracy and in love, everything is legitimate” – Renato Brunetta (Leader of the PDL in the Italian lower chamber) At the turn of the current millennium, the American scholar, Robert Wright sugg...
Doomed 9 Aug 2013 | 08:17 pm
“If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000” – Paul Ehrlich (1968) Paul Ehrlich remains a highly regarded US entomologist, best known for his dire warni...
Taper Caper 2 Aug 2013 | 08:02 pm
“In a minute there is time, For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse” – T.S. Eliot This week saw recent US economic history rewritten a little: growth in the first quarter was revised ...
The lands ‘The Times’ forgot 26 Jul 2013 | 08:40 pm
“In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly! But westward, look, the land is bright!” – Hugh Clough Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall” today would be an airport bestseller chronicling the decadence of Western...
Entrepreneurship the key to the fortunes of the world’s wealthy 23 Jul 2013 | 03:50 pm
When the U.K.’s Sunday Times Rich List was first published in 1989, only 21% of the country’s richest 200 people had made their fortunes themselves. The list was a who’s who of inherited wealth and ar...
An elephant leaves the room 19 Jul 2013 | 08:20 pm
“… no generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its own existence.” – Thomas Jefferson, 1789 You’d think his point would have sunk in by now. The idea that our chil...
Don’t be bullied by bonds 12 Jul 2013 | 08:47 pm
“I used to think if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the President or the Pope… But now I want to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everyone.” – James Carville Mr Bern...
War of words 5 Jul 2013 | 07:58 pm
“The menu is not the meal” Alan Wilson Watts In spite of another Portuguese political meltdown and more astonishing scenes in Tahrir Square, the most recognisable fingerprints on markets this week we...
The Great Normalization begins 21 Jun 2013 | 07:29 pm
Most assets have fallen in value this week as the Fed has signalled the beginning of the end for QE, and the start of the Great Normalisation of monetary policy. We see the medium-term prospects from ...
