I haven’t take my hat off to Steven Spielberg since E.T., and that’s not just because I don’t wear a hat any more. I officially put one...

Sovereign Wealth Funds were a topic of this blog last year and they are coming to general attention again. A Sovereign Wealth Fund or S...

2007 saw virtually every financial sector face decline. My own holding in Irish Lifes ‘BankScope’ took a pounding worthy of the nationa...

I wrote about inflation in china before and how it might affect their economic growth, in fact it may prove to be their economic Achill...

Not long ago I had a proper rant about the state of Arab nations because I read how a woman in Saudi Arabia was raped and her attackers...

One thing you will hear more about this year is ‘geo-political risk’ and it spans many sectors and countries. One example that instantl...

Yesterday I made a fairly bold statement stating that I believed we are on the cusp of a recession. Today I am going to point out some ...

I want to make a quick prediction for 2008. It will be (contrary to what everybody else in this industry says) that the property market...

It looks like the ECB will keep its rates where they are, the Fed is likely to cut their rates. I made a prediction that the US rates w...

Inflation... commodities bull run is not finished by a long shot! the upsurge in prices of the basic things that we all need is going t...

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