This must-watch film documents how Britain evolved from a colonial power into a global financial power, capturing wealth from across the globe and hiding it behind obscure financial structures in a vast web of offshore islands… Read More The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire
After years of dodgy accounting and mismanagement.… Read More Resurrected Abengoa & Construction Giant OHL Flirt with Collapse
In the feverish reshuffling of financial services for a post-Brexit world, London still comes out ahead, but less so.… Read More France Chases London’s Gold Market Amid Soft-Brexit Hopes
City of London just lost a $240-billion-a-day financial market.… Read More What Would It Be Like
Italy is in meltdown, Hungary in open revolt, and the US wants a trade war. Small wonder Europe’s leaders haven’t got much time for Brits… Read More Why Brexit Is Just a Sideshow for an EU Beset by Problems on All Sides
The French megabanks are on the hook.… Read More Why’s France so Worried about Italy’s Showdown with Brussels?
Cash is less of a threat to central bank policies when interest rates rise above zero… Read More Swedish Central Bank Makes U-Turn on Cash as NIRP is Ending
The clandestine role of the Spanish government in a run on deposits that drained €29 billion from Catalan banks… Read More Revealed: The Run on Banks in Catalonia after the Independence Vote was Fomented by Madrid
The economic miracle fueled by foreign-currency debt… Read More Loans Sour in Turkey, Inflation Hits 25%, Interest Rates Spike, Fears of Contagion Rise
For all their concerns with rules, treaties, processes, competitiveness, freedom of movement, terrorism etc, only one prospect truly terrifies the EU’s deep establishment: democracy… Read More The Six Brexit Traps That Will Defeat Theresa May
After the euro debt crisis, Spain’s alpha-lender sought greener pastures in the Emerging Markets. That bet is coming home to roost.… Read More Emerging Market Hangover Begins For Spanish Bank BBVA
Ten years on, the crisis unleashed in Wall Street in 2008 is still with us… Read More What Caused the Crash of 2008 Is Now Shaping Our Post-modern 1930s
