Recovery is on line – but is the Economy Balanced?
Some times things come to your attention that make you think – but that does not mean that there is a connection or cause and […]
The Business Environment
Big Government on the Horizon
Yesterday there were no less than three stories that indicated that the government would take steps to legislate to change their control or create control […]
Business news tells two tales
At a glance the business headlines today tell us two different tales of the economy – looking forwards some positive signs, but tempered by reflections […]
Economic Forecasts for 2013
Ground Hog Day It was interesting to see that several papers have picked up this analogy to describe what we can expect in the UK […]
UBS Fined for LIBOR Rigging
The Swiss bank UBS has agreed to pay fines totalling $1,5bn for their part in the LIBOR rigging scandal which really draws into focus the […]
Will Italy trigger more EU economic problems?
Political Crisis Will Saturdays resignation of Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti trigger wider problems for the EU? Monti, the leader of the so called technocrats […]
Osborne’s statement causes Fitch to review UK rating
Yesterdays Autumn Statement by the chancellor, George Osborne, threw the opposition by suggesting that despite the government missing it’s targets and that the national deficit […]
Leveson describes his solution as self-regulation with statutory oversight. The Leveson report is out.
Almost a year to the day after the Levelson enquiry was set up Lord Justice Leveson presented his report on the press and the public. […]
Phew!!! – US Election over
We can all finally breath again – Obama is in the White House for another term – this is not a political statement, this is […]
New Business Bank – Lib Dem Policy
All this week the Lib Dems have been at their Autumn conference in Brighton and as they say a week is a long time in […]