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The real problem – getting things in proportion 29 May 2012 | 05:10 am
Foreign direct investment (FDI) has been with us ever since merchants started establishing outposts in the more far-flung parts of the world from where goods and raw materials were sourced. The more f...
Europe: no news is very bad news 25 May 2012 | 09:52 am
As the 18th Eurozone crisis summit in two years rolls offstage, we are left wondering what was the purpose of it all? The arguments that fly from side to side are only heated inasmuch as they are acco...
Brazil: flying up the world order 18 May 2012 | 03:22 am
There are so many indicators that one can consult to determine who is moving up on the global economic stage. In several of them, Brazil is looking increasingly attractive as an investment destination...
Vauxhall Motors; good for work, bad for prejudice 18 May 2012 | 02:02 am
This week, readers in the UK may have noticed that their regular satirical magazine and at least one of the national papers referred to the Levenson ‘Enquiry’ into press standards as a witch hunt. The...
A perfect economic opportunity 9 May 2012 | 11:13 pm
This week, quite a few commentators have been using one of Winston Churchill’s less used quotes that… “The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.” This, ...
Reading the Weather 4 May 2012 | 10:28 pm
It's sometimes hard to tell what's going on in the UK economy. Watch the BBC and you might feel a twinge of nostalgia for the Scottish character in an old British TV comedy series 'Dad's Army': not ju...
Leveson: enquiry, witch-hunt or plain old fashioned political business bashing? 2 May 2012 | 09:56 pm
The Leveson witch-hunt trial – the term ‘enquiry’ suggests an impartiality that has seemed wholly absent from these proceedings – is getting out of hand and is in danger of becoming a disincentive to ...
Well engineered – where the UK leads by design 24 Apr 2012 | 02:45 am
There is not much in life that doesn’t rely on engineering and design. And the UK is a country that has always been at the front of the pack in both sectors. And, while some UK design and engineering ...
Shopping into a brighter future 24 Apr 2012 | 02:03 am
While UK based retailer, Tesco, has seen a 1% decline in profits from its UK operations in the year to February 2012, its overall profits rose 5.3% on all Tesco businesses world-wide. Much of the grow...
UK economy steady if not startling 12 Apr 2012 | 10:26 pm
News that the U.K.'s foreign trade deficit widened in February 2012 to £8.8 billion, far from indicating any flaws in economic policy suggests that the drive to shift economic partnerships from Europe...
