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Nov 27 2008
Alistair Darling is set to borrow the mind-numbing sum of £118billion next year ......
Nov 26 2008
ournalists are despised, politicians are distrusted. Bankers are just plain hated....
Nov 25 2008
Call it a Budget for Christmas shoppers, if you like, a Budget for Old Labour activists, a Budget for parents and for pensioners, a Budget for small businesses getting late with their tax, for home-buyers getting late with their mortgages, for multi-nationals thinking of shifting to Dublin, above all a Budget for votes....
Nov 20 2008
Stocks slipping despite cut...
Nov 7 2008
There is nothing like falling interest rates to get the stock market going....
Oct 7 2008
It takes no more than an excitable blog to start a run on bank shares nowadays. ...
Oct 2 2008
Nobody is rushing to buy a house today that they think will get a whole lot cheaper if they wait. And the banks are in no mood to encourage them. ...
Sep 25 2008
First, congratulations to all those tactful delegates at the Labour conference who managed to get through without mentioning that our Prime Minister was the Chancellor who gloried in the claim that he had abolished “boom and bust”. ...
Sep 24 2008
Short sellers have been targeting bank shares this year. We all know that....
Sep 19 2008
I have an interest to declare. I am a loser. Some time ago I bought some Lloyds TSB shares – that is why I have never written about it before....