If success breeds confidence then the lack of confidence in global markets right now implies significant failure – or at least a petrified fear of failure.
Decoupling is now a major risk (as you would have read in a multitude of media sources already) due to stagnated growth …
Karl Marx seems to be the poster boy of late in the economics world with his critiques of capitalism penned in the 1800s. To maintain the illusion that this burningpants correspondent is hip (so far no Che t-shirts though), we will play along.
If we could surmise his …
The biggest shakeup of the UK banking sector in more than 25 years was announced on Monday in London, with the Government moving quickly to support the plan.
Chancellor George Osborne led the chorus backing a review by the Independent Commission on Banking (ICB) into the sector and …
By the time you read this blog it is probable the total amount of cash saved by Australian individuals, businesses and superannuation funds will have exceeded $1 trillion, an amount of money so colossal that if you stacked it up in $1 coins it would reach 400 kilometres …
As a Twitter user this burningpants correspondent has been confounded by the flurry of tweets by senior economic analysts clamoring for more regulation and government intervention into the markets. Marx has come back into vogue for many… again.
The media is having a field day with the theatre …
Newsflash: the world has changed fundamentally and will never be the same again. If your business looks anything like it did five years ago or is still trying to make money the way it did five years ago, then prepare yourself for a long, slow extinction.
This isn’t …
