I was in India earlier this month to have two days of meetings with company CEOs (thanks very much to UBS’s Ranjit Hosangady, an M&G alum, for organising). The link below takes you to a short video that I filmed…
Tag Archives: competition
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The IMF is schizophrenic on Osborne’s UK budget. And a Keynesian book competition.
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- IMF, quantitative easing, UK
Posted November 8th, 2010
In September, the International Monetary Fund “threw its weight” behind the UK government’s austerity programme, saying that it “supports a balanced recovery”. One month later, in its World Economic Outlook (WEO), it seems a lot less sure of itself. In…
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We’ve just got hold of some copies of the newly reprinted book about the Weimar Republic’s hyper-inflation, When Money Dies by Adam Ferguson. In 1923 the German mark was trading at 4,200,000,000,000 to the dollar, and the population was impoverished and…
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British Airways, strikes, and a final Christmas competition reminder
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- BB rated, high yield
Posted December 16th, 2009
As BA goes to court to try to stop the 12 Days of Christmas strike by its UNITE cabin crew members, I dug out the paper mentioned in the Times yesterday about the impact of striking on workers’ pay. The…
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Here is this year’s Christmas Quiz. Please email us your entries by 5pm on Friday 18 December. First prize is £100 of Amazon vouchers and there are 4 copies of "Too Big To Fail" by Andrew Ross Sorkin (in which…










