AMERICANS are notoriously obsessed with books about self-improvement. Now Goldman Sachs has added to the literature with a much-awaited report…
Subprime mortgages may have dominated the headlines in 2008 but high commodity prices played a significant part in the economic…
A WILDERNESS of mirrors is how Hugh Hendry of Eclectica Asset Management, a macro hedge fund, has described the uncertain…
China has become pretty practised at stage-managing its international bows. The yuan?s rise as a global currency is being handled…
The debt crisis has presented investors with an extremely awkward dilemma. Debt ratios, relative to GDP, are so high that…
Global spending on advertising will grow by 4.5% in 2011, it is estimated. This is double the rate of the…
Five-year Argentinean credit-default swaps have been tightening, whilst Ireland?s have widened to 609 basis points, the third highest in the…
Before reality TV ruled the airwaves, the Saturday night schedules on the BBC would often feature a variety show with…
For philosophers the great existential question is: ?Why is there something rather than nothing?? For management theorists the more mundane…
If you want to know what to worry about in 2011, here?s a place to start. Sovereign-bond yields are rising?not…
During the run-up to the Iraq war Donald Rumsfeld, then America?s defence secretary, famously distinguished between ?old? Europe and ?new?…
Throughout 2010 financial markets have reflected a strange confluence of views. Government-bond yields have been low indicating that investors are…
News bulletins feature the stockmarket?s daily movements or the rise and fall of European government-bond yields.
In a speech to Morgan Stanley?s staff during the market turmoil of 2008, John Mack, the firm?s street-fighting boss, wondered…
For anyone seeking proof of the extent of China?s reach into Africa, this year?s graduation ceremony for executive MBA students…
In The war on savers a new front has been opened. Savers are already penalised by record low interest rates,…
So many conferences are held in Hong Kong that it is hard to believe one could ever be full. Yet…
In 2006 Richard Layard, an economist at the London School of Economics, argued that unhappiness was a bigger social problem…
