Articles:
- Will George Osborne become Britain's biggest hate figure in 2011? - Another year of dreary recovery will be too hard to bear without someone to blame - 6th January 2011
- It may be time for a little investor-bashing - Excessive bonuses are a problem, but the bankers aren't the ones to blame - 22nd December 2010
- It's reassuring that regulators are still worried about financial stability - The fact remains that the old risks have not all gone away, and upon close examination there are some new ones to fret about, too - 17th December 2010
- Tax protests: Nice companies or job creators? - Protests against tax-dodging may be misguided, but they have caught the public mood - 15th December 2010
- RBS was a disaster on a massive scale - so was the FSA's 'report' - Lord Turner's investigation is better late than never, but did it achieve anything? - 11th December 2010
- Business needs to win the popularity contest - Protests against tax-dodging may be misguided, but they have caught the public mood - 8th December 2010
- Confronting the devils of the financial and sovereign debt crises - Britain and Europe have as many villains as the US for our own story of the financial crisis - 4th December 2010
- There's no defence against basic instinct - Investors have discovered that their confidence in the banks was misplaced - 1st December 2010
- FBI hedge fund raids may weed out rogues, but won't fix the problems in the financial system - The FBI and FSA are cracking down on illegal activities, but what about the banking system's artificially high fees, perverse incentives and inadequate market mechanisms for bank failure? - 26th November 2010
- Slow growth is far better than no growth - Making plans for a gradual recovery is probably the best we can hope for - 24th November 2010
- Why British retailers will boldly go where they have already been - The UK retail market is saturated. Efficient operators such as Tesco have already expanded their market share to the edge of decency, so what next for Britain's shopkeepers - 12th November 2010
- How business steered us through the storm - Britain's firms prevented a deeper recession, and are now dragging us back to growth - 27th October 2010
- Guy Hands mistook his banker for a friend - No one is going to come out of the EMI court battle with their reputations intact - 20th October 2010
- Chile aced mining rescue, but how well will it deal with the aftermath? - Like unhappy families, every corporate disaster is unhappy in its own way. Except the Chilean mining disaster, which appears to be that rare phenomenon: a corporate disaster with a happy ending - 15th October 2010
- It’s partly women’s fault that they’re paid less - Attitudes are changing, but old habits of underselling themselves die hard - 13th October 2010
- Demonise' the algos - it's in our interest - What's the most overused word or phrase in business discourse these days? - 8th October 2010
- Jérôme Kerviel case: why is it so rare to see a banker behind bars? - Jérôme Kerviel's financial folly put him in prison, but others get away with it - 6th October 2010
- Basel III will put brakes on growth but slow and sensible is the way to go - A week is known to be a long time in politics. It now appears that two weeks is a long time in the banking industry - 1st October 2010
- Ed Miliband, HSBC and Kim Jong-un: how to put the success into succession - When it comes to picking a leader, Labour and North Korea leave HSBC trailing - 29th September 2010
- What can Middlesbrough teach Britain? - For lessons on how to rebalance the economy, the Government should look north - 22nd September 2010
- At least the Wall Street stars were good company - If Oliver Stone set a film in the City, he'd find gripping characters harder to come by - 15th September 2010
- Bigger sometimes isn't better, Mr Walsh - BA's scheming boss has a new plan, but it won't solve his airline's problems - 7th September 2010
- Will Chilean mines be any safer in the future? - There are only 18 inspectors for the country's hundreds of mines - 28th August 2010
- So many warnings, so little action ahead of BP's Deepwater disaster - Why did no one call a stop to drilling at the Macondo oil well in the run up to the explosion on April 20? Is the answer simply that no one realised disaster was about to strike? - 27th August 2010
- Let's stop being uptight about our time off - Unpaid leave can suit both you and your employer, so why is it still a taboo subject - 25th August 2010
- The victims who don't reach our TV screens - It's not just in Pakistan that relief efforts are hampered by logistical challenges - 24th August 2010
- The true mark of success is knowing how to lose one's job - The economic climate is grim and the tricky business of securing a job of any description is becoming even more difficult. Anyone lucky enough to be in even moderately lucrative employment must, surely, be keen to hang on in there - 21st August 2010
- Beware following in Woodford's footsteps - The ability of Cenkos to persuade Neil Woodford, Invesco Perpetual's star fund manager, to take significant stakes in a string of its Aim floats has long intrigued many in the City - 20th August 2010
- The true mark of success is knowing how to lose one's job - The economic climate is grim and the tricky business of securing a job of any description is becoming even more difficult. Anyone lucky enough to be in even moderately lucrative employment must, surely, be keen to hang on in there - 20th August 2010
- High-flying women lie about sex too - Surveys about the number of people's sexual partners should be handled with care - 18th August 2010
- BAA and Unite still have scope to avert Bank Holiday strike horror - This may just be wishful thinking, but I have high hopes that BAA and Unite, when they meet for talks at Acas on Monday, will manage to thrash out some sort of agreement to avert strike action during the August bank holiday weekend - 14th August 2010
- Why working – a bit – till we drop is the future for baby boomers - It used to be known as "portfolio working" and its advent was trumpeted for years. Is it, at last, turning into reality? - 13th August 2010
- It's good news that house prices are falling - Low interest rates are the key for first-time buyers and struggling home-owners - 11th August 2010
- Gulf of Mexico oil spill: Cheap oil and deepwater drilling don't mix - Tony Hayward had to go, but we'll all have to pay if we want risk-free fuel - 28th July 2010
- It's rich for the US to lecture us about lobbying - Americans should look closer to home before accusing BP of pressuring politicians - 22nd July 2010
- Will fans risk another bite of the Apple? - The iPhone 4 backlash has been so fierce because the desire for it was so strong - 17th July 2010
- There's trouble ahead if interest rates rise - Regulation is necessary to protect families from getting the big decisions wrong - 14th July 2010
- Facebook faces a rude awakening - With any luck, David Cameron's espousal of Facebook will soon make the network deeply uncool - 11th July 2010
- The hunt for energy is not going to be pretty - State support for new technologies is necessary but brings its own risks - 7th July 2010
- Here's a controversial thought: banks don't believe mega bonuses are a good thing - Tempers are flaring on the fraught subject of City bonuses, following the announcement of tighter European Union rules - 2nd July 2010
- The banking system still looks dangerously shaky - For all the rhetoric, the banking sector's problems have not yet been fixed - 30th June 2010
- Failure is no fun, but sometimes success isn't a whole lot better - British business leaders are no longer in any doubt, after the financial crisis and the BP oil spill: when they make mistakes, they will get it in the neck - 24th June 2010
- Europe may scupper this recovery plan - The Chancellor is relying on exports to drive growth, but who is buying - 23rd June 2010
- Is Mervyn King really preparing to commit murder on the dance floor? - It is three o'clock in the morning and the dance floor is packed with sweaty, middle-aged men - 30th June 2010
- Selling our ready meals to the Americans is a tall order - The ready meal is much underrated - 16th June 2010
- Why can't we have more bosses like Sir Terry? - By retiring, Tesco's CEO has again shown the judgment that has kept him ahead of his rivals - 9th June 2010
- From ire to humility in one speeding class - One lesson I learnt this week was that almost everyone has a plausible reason for driving too fast – and almost everyone is keen to share it - 22nd May 2010
- A very British punishment for our bankers - The FSA's response to the crisis is a classic Establishment fudge - 19th May 2010
- Why the Market wanted the Conservatives in No 10 - Investors don't have a political axe to grind – they just want their money to be safe - 12th May 2010
- Oil boss needs to do more to salvage company's reputation - Tracy Corrigan explains that BP's chief executive is learning that it's never too early to grovel - 5th May 2010
- Spain isn't Greece, Portugal isn't Ireland; where does that leave Britain? - "My dear Norfolk… this isn't Spain. This is England," Thomas Cromwell points out to an adversary in A Man for All Seasons, the Robert Bolt play which was one of my 'O' level set texts - 30th April 2010
- Surprise! The banks want to make money - Goldman Sachs was just doing what comes naturally in the world of high finance - 19th April 2010
- How a shift in Tory thinking can boost business - David Cameron, unlike the first George Bush, can do the "vision thing". And his vision thing, it seems, is the Big Society thing - 2nd April 2010
- Nuclear power – yes please, and lots of it - new power stations are the most effective way of addressing our energy needs - 31st March 2010
- Google really doesn't have all the answers - The internet giant was right to pull the plug on China, but its 'Philosophy' can be puzzling - 24th March 2010
- Does my debt look too big in these jeans and other pre-election worries - Honesty may be the best policy, but it is not necessarily going to get anyone elected on May 6 - 19th March 2010
- Job flexibility is working well for Britain - A cultural shift in attitudes has resulted in lower unemployment than previous downturns - 17th March 2010
- Attacking speculators is a good bet for troubled politicians - In the last week, George Papandreou, the Greek prime minister, has reached a historic agreement with the leaders of France, Germany, and the US - 12th March 2010
- I've never seen a pit bull-toting pensioner - Is there ever a good reason to own a dog bred for fighting - 10th March 2010
- It's a taxing problem for the wealthy Greeks - 'There is nothing impossible to him that will try," according to Alexander the Great, who conquered most of the civilised word in the fourth century BC but never attempted to reform the Greek tax system - 5th March 2010
- It's a taxing problem for the wealthy Greeks - 'There is nothing impossible to him that will try," according to Alexander the Great, who conquered most of the civilised word in the fourth century BC but never attempted to reform the Greek tax system - 5th March 2010
- Only a showdown can save BA from ruin - Even if cabin crew do not go on strike, the threat of action is killing the airline slowly - 24th February 2010
- The wizardry that cast a bad spell on Greece - The world's financial system is still rigged to reward excessive risk-taking - 17th February 2010
- Britain isn't in the euro but there's still plenty to worry about - What fun it is being British. We moan about the weather, despite the lack of severe hurricanes and blizzards. Inadequate public transport, poor education, grotty hospitals, binge-drinking, drug-addled, pregnant teenagers – the list of woes goes on and on, even though on almost all these issues, Britons have it better than many others, even in the developed world - 12th February 2010
- Another good reason to love John Lewis - Things seem to go better for businesses when workers have a stake in success - 10th February 2010
- Why the music is still playing for the merry dance between bankers and art - One of the perks of my job – or so they tell me – is that I am sometimes wined and dined in the boardrooms of the City's great institutions. Or rather, breakfasted and lunched - 5th February 2010
- Wise old heads with a vision for safer banks - To prevent another catastrophe, the US has sent for the sages - 3rd February 2010
- Bankers should learn to sing in perfect harmony - or simply shut up - George Soros, no stranger to public opprobrium himself, thinks bankers are "tone-deaf" in their reaction to proposed reform - 29th January 2010
- Compared with Lynn Gilderdale, my daughter was lucky - The story of the Gilderdales has awakened painful memories for Tracy Corrigan - 27th January 2010
- Kraft's takeover of Cadbury leaves a bitter taste in the mouth - Investors in both companies – and the British economy – could lose out in the long term - 20th January 2010
- Obama's bank tax will only work if there's a master plan in place - There is a good case for taxing banks more heavily than other businesses. President Barack Obama's plan to raise a levy to pay for the cost of the US bank bail-out may be well be motivated by a desire to appease popular anger over bankers' blow-out bonuses, but I don't have a problem with that, provided the tax is sensibly conceived and targeted - 15th January 2010
- Look out – the taxman is getting tetchy - Even the innocent may have reason to fear the Revenue's new powers - 13th January 2010
- Our problems with Icelandic banks may be the tip of the iceberg - It's hard to keep cool about Iceland, especially when you are a British taxpayer. The country now seems likely to renege on its debt to the UK government, which bailed out British savers in a failed Icelandic bank – and if it does, guess who will be left to carry the can? - 8th January 2010
- Gold will be the next bubble if we don't learn our lesson - The best thing about the start of a new year is the sense of infinite possibility it brings. Nearly everyone has a plan. We are all going to stop smoking and learn to scuba-dive. Or pay off our debts and get a new job - 4th January 2010
- Who will be next year's most hated? - Bankers and politicians have made a start, but there's plenty of loathing left - 23rd December 2009
- Copenhagen climate change: In the season of goodwill, let's find some common ground - Between the extremes of those who think capitalism must be abolished to avoid disaster, and those who believe there is a global, tree-hugging conspiracy, there is plenty of middle ground - 18th December 2009
- Trouble at BA is bad news for the consumer - With its rivals offering low-cost misery, let's hope British Airways' problems are fixed soon - 16th December 2009
- Who else gets a bonus simply for turning up? - If bankers want rewards, then perhaps they should start earning them - 9th December 2009
- Where Dubai leads, Britain could soon follow - The sovereign debt crisis shows that we cannot always rely on states to ride to the rescue - 1st December 2009
- The City is still banking on the state - We need to know that there are limits to the financial support we give to the banks - 28th November 2009
- Full disclosure fixes many problems, but bankers' pay isn't one of them - Full and timely disclosure is vitally important in financial markets. Without sufficient information to form a judgment, sensible investors are loath to part with their money - 27th November 2009
- Private equity may just have made enough of a mess to reform itself - Private equity is in trouble. Funds are being wound down. Badly burnt investors want what's left of their money back. The value of leveraged buy-outs – companies acquired by private equity funds – has collapsed from almost $700bn in both 2006 and 2007 to less than $70bn in the year to date, according to Dealogic - 20th November 2009
- Bosses just pay themselves what they like - Despite the tough talk, shareholders don't have the will to curb the greed - 18th November 2009
- Banks make hay - everyone else must pay - Quantitative easing has not made borrowing any easier or cheaper for most firms - 10th November 2009
- Sell stocks, ditch gold: why buying bankers is the safest investment - These are difficult times for savers, with interest rates low, stock prices frothy and gold at historic highs. Luckily, I have a foolproof investment plan: I intend to buy a banker - 23rd October 2009
- A tearful ending to our love affair with credit cards - The FSA's lending restrictions are sensible, but that won't stop them hurting - 20th October 2009
- Bankers should stay worried. . . we're watching - The country is in a mess, and almost everyone else is paying the price - 18th October 2009
- When business leaders start getting political, it is time to switch off - I want to listen to the Voice of Business. I truly do. Business leaders and lobby groups are constantly underlining the need to pay attention to what they say and, on subjects such as excessive taxation and onerous red-tape, their complaints are mostly valid - and deserve frequent repetition, given that the Government has not been quick on the uptake - 16th October 2009
- Congratulations, you didn't get the job - The saga of ITV's hunt for a chief executive shows it can pay to be passed over - 13th October 2009
- Staff appraisals make it easy to identify the winners– the consultants - It's that time of year again. At some point in the next month or so, most of us still in gainful employment will undergo some sort of end-of-year performance appraisal - 9th October 2009
- The Power of Yes: it’s too soon to make a drama out of the financial crisis - On top of all their other traumas, the bankers who lived through the financial crisis are facing a rather unexpected horror – seeing themselves portrayed on stage and screen - 8th October 2009
- Big Macs at the Louvre? See the wider picture - Chains like Starbucks and McDonalds may be ubiquitous, but they have become more adept at blending in - 6th October 2009
- Sensible bonus curbs are good for the City as well as for the soul - It seems the mere mention of bonus reform is enough to strike fear into the hearts of grown men - 2nd October 2009
- Be wary of popping the pill question - Journalists may have the right to ask Gordon Brown about his health, but some issues should remain private - 29th September 2009
- Why companies need to think twice about the real cost of cheap credit - Has corporate Britain been saved by rallying stock prices? So far this year, British companies have raised more than £60bn through rights issues, thanks to favourable market conditions - 25th September 2009
- A better way for university students to pay their way - There is a nasty hole in university funding that is not going to go away - 22nd September 2009
- Barclays’ treatment of toxic assets may have unexpected side-effects - Everybody wins. So why don’t I feel like cheering? - 18th September 2009
- Reforming the financial system is the battle Obama really has to win - If the American President fails to reform the financial system, we will all be the losers - 15th September 2009
- One vital lesson of the financial crisis: sometimes it is better to shut up - There is, Ecclesiastes tells us, a time to be silent and a time to speak. The advice is sound but it does not go far enough. My problem has always been figuring out which is which - 11th September 2009
- Why women should give the City a miss - Earnings gap and working conditions will continue to discourage recruits - 8th September 2009
- Is G20 up to the difficult job of co-ordinating global banking reform? - The strains on the G20 meeting of finance ministers, which starts officially in London today, are starting to show. Alistair Darling has warned his opposite numbers that it is "a bit early" to stop spending on economic stimulus packages, but the unity expressed at the height of the crisis appears, not surprisingly, to be crumbling - 4th September 2009
- It's time for bankers to stop pretending they're not just in it for the money - Lord Turner believes much of the City is 'socially useless'. Is that such a bad thing - 1st September 2009
- Lord Turner's answer to the financial crisis raises more questions - How fixed do we want the financial system to be, when redrawing of the rules is finished? From the start, there has been a fairly strong global consensus on many of the issues – the need to require more capital to be set aside against risky activities and for regulators to keep a closer eye on systemic risk. But that is the easy bit - 28th August 2009
- I wish Tesco would open some village shops - Big chains are meeting the need for good, local stores – but they need to go one step further - 25th August 2009
- Allure of the Alps is strong, but 'mobile wealthy' may stay put in Mayfair - Right, that's it – I've had enough. In the heat of an argument, there is nothing more satisfying than storming out - 21st August 2009
- It's not just greed that drives top bankers - Curbs on bonuses might be a good thing – but it will take more to solve the crisis - 18th August 2009
- If banking reform falters, there's always the repay-your-bonus scheme - It would have been naïve to expect City bankers to give up their hard-won – well, actually, rather easily won – right to award themselves massive pay-outs, just because they had to run to the taxpayer for help a few months ago - 14th August 2009
- Next year, I'm definitely holidaying abroad - the Great British Holiday is not that great, nor is it a cheap alternative to going to Europe - 11th August 2009
- City's growing influence may have been a bad influence on Britain - The only option might have been to rescue banks but they are up to their same old tricks - 24th July 2009
- George Osborne answers some tough questions on financial reform - I was beginning to worry that George Osborne's much-repeated pledge to scrap the FSA was the beginning and the end of his plan for post-crisis financial reform. Thankfully, yesterday's Conservative policy document amounted to considerably more than that soundbite - 21st July 2009
- We are still mad with the banks but we are no closer to getting even - In my own struggle to come to terms with last year's banking crisis – a personal trauma for every taxpayer – I have so far experienced only anger and depression, most recently straddling the two. This week, however, I have regressed to anger, and I sense I am not alone - 17th July 2009
- Boardrooms could do with a blast of teenage bluntness - Every profession needs its equivalent of a 15-year-old on work experience to challenge conventional wisdom - 14th July 2009
- White Paper marks a necessary philosophical shift – but danger lurks - Alistair Darling has learnt some lessons from the financial crisis. His new philosophical approach to regulation is reflected in this week's White Paper – but it is common to many academics and policymakers around the world - 10th July 2009
- Are we too ignorant for French wine? - Tracy Corrigan wonders why we have lost our appreciation for good food and wine - 10th July 2009
- Less pay for more holidays? Yes, please! - for those who can afford it, offers such as Willie Walsh's at British Airways are a great idea - 7th July 2009
- Osborne learns what a tricky balancing act he must perform with debt - Is the Conservative party planning to revolutionise the corporate tax system, when it comes into power? The answer is yes, definitely… maybe - 3rd July 2009
- BA's call for unpaid work is more than a flight of fancy in these dark days - Willie Walsh is no charmer. A long, hot, salary-free July beckons, but the British Airways boss won't just be voluntarily working for no money – he will be working for no money in the full knowledge that his gesture has profoundly irritated many people - 26th June 2009
- As Stephen Hester of RBS gets a pay boost, the time has come for investors to curb bosses’ pay - The rules are in place – all we need now is some action to curb the worst excesses - 23rd June 2009
- Financial crisis? Six signs it's already back to business as usual for City bankers - 19th june 2009
- I'd choose a job in business over politics every time - For many women, a career at Westminster has lost its appeal - 16th June 2009
- Emails leave electronic trail to the heart of the financial crisis - Oh, to have been a fly on the wall during the pivotal moments of the credit crisis – to know what the lenders of toxic mortgages in the US were really thinking, and how the Federal Reserve got Bank of America to buy Merrill Lynch just as financial meltdown loomed - 12th June 2009
- Andy Hornby: The parable of the prodigal banker - 'The God I believe in is a God of second chances," Bill Clinton once said. Andy Hornby, the former boss of HBOS, must have been praying at the same altar - 9th June 2009
- The General Motors bailout only delays an inevitable crash - There is no justification for pumping so much money into the car industry - 2nd June 2009
- Lloyds bosses failed their shareholders - Banks shouldn't do deals at all unless they are serving their investors' interests - 19th May 2009
- Easing does it, as the banks cash in from a gilt-edged opportunity - Take one gilts market, add liberal amounts of quantitative easing, and stir manically. The result? A big, gooey mess - 15th May 2009
- Bankers back in line to profit from failure - Can guaranteed bonuses really be on the table for RBS staff? You can bank on it - 12th May 2009
- The bureaucrats are ruining our children's education, not teachers - Children are suffering from endless, and unnecessary, changes to the system - 5th May 2009
- Which bankers performed so badly that they deserve a medal? - What could be more appropriate, under the circumstances, than to pass out some Banking Razzies – and attempt to separate those who were merely too chicken to call time on the banking bonanza from the real turkeys? - 1st May 2009
- Business as usual – big bonuses for bankers - Banks that have survived are in the black and it doesn't look like curbs on pay will stick - 28th April 2009
- Why gilt investors aren't buying into Darling's fantasy world - The Budget shows that realism has disappeared with prudence down a 'rabbit-hole' - 24th April 2009
- Government's green Budget is nothing more than a whitewash - Alistair Darling today came up with £1 billion "to help combat climate change, by supporting low-carbon industries and green-collar jobs" - 23rd April 2009
- The miracle is that the recession hasn't been worse - Despite the downturn, we pessimists can at least find something to comfort us - 7th April 2009
- G20: only those who thought it would save the world will be disappointed - Was it all worth it? Personally, I've found watching the G20 circus from the relative comfort of my desk an exhausting experience, so I can hardly imagine what state those poor leaders are in, with their taxing schedule of multi- and bi-lateral meetings, dinners and press briefings - 3rd April 2009
- Don’t bet your shirt if you want to come out top in a divorce - Far be it from me to lecture anyone on the subject of marriage; however I do have a few tips to offer on how to survive divorce - 2nd April 2009
- Put people first, they shout... yes, but how? - The G20 protesters have every right to be angry, but their message doesn't make sense - 31st March 2009
- Hedge funds still need some trimming after the financial crisis - How are hedge funds weathering the financial crisis? Well, things could be worse - 27th March 2009
- How does anyone manage the logistics of a second home? - Idyllic country retreats are over-rated: one set of unresolved DIY issues is enough - 26th March 2009
- We are claiming others' grief as our own - The response to Jade Goody's death shows the value of a little restraint - 24th March 2009
- A few words of advice when it comes to talking about the financial crisis - 'Don't mention the war," Basil Fawlty exhorted his staff in a famous episode of Fawlty Towers, as he prepared to welcome visitors from Germany - 20th March 2009
- Women should be wary of financial flattery - I like being flattered as much as the next woman, but the unrelentingly positive press accorded to the female gender as a result of the financial crisis is starting to get on my nerves - 17th March 2009
- Sooner or later a short-seller is going to be caught short themselves - Although the economic crisis is getting more shockingly awful by the day, my capacity for feeling shock seems to be fading. The second round of cash injections into the banks somehow hasn't seemed quite as horrifying as the first – the numbers just sound more surreal - 13th March 2009
- It's not easy being pro-business these days - Both the main parties are in a policy muddle - 10th March 2009
- Pressing the nuclear button has never looked so attractive - We are at the dawn of a new nuclear age, and, this time, it's good news. Increasing the provision of nuclear energy is the best way to stop the lights going out and make the UK less dependent on foreign energy in the future - 6th March 2009
- It could be worse, Sir Fred. You could still have your job - With talk of prosecutorial powers for regulators, bankers have reason to be fearful - 4th March 2009
- The most sensible solution is to police the banks from the bottom up - Six months ago, the plan was to sort out the immediate financial crisis and wait for the banking system to settle down, before tackling regulatory reform. The reality has turned out to be messier - 27th February 2009
- Top bankers are in no position to hold taxpayers to ransom - If the experts who got us into this mess threaten to walk, then let them go - 17th February 2009
- Bankers get paid too much, but please let's fix the bigger problems - This week, the world's top bankers were finally called to account - 13th February 2009
- Bankers' bonuses: When greed gets the better of survival - he banks can no longer be trusted to put their own house in order - 10th February 2009
- Why bankers need a reality check to go with their pay cheques - Earth to planet banker: are you reading me? I know it seems rather cushy out there in your nicely cushioned space-pod, but back here on earth, the world has moved on, and not in a good way - 6th February 2009
- Don't panic - we're in uncharted territory - Mistakes of the past do not necessarily provide answers to the current crisis - 3rd February 2009
- Bosses have motivation in spades, they don't need a bonus to prove it - When Peter Mandelson famously said that he was "intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich" he omitted to mention whether he felt equally relaxed about exactly how they do so. I'm a bit more picky myself - 30th January 2009
- Behold! It's the good news that's fit to print - Amid the gloom, the media will soon break their own rules and find any chink of light worthy of note - 27th January 2009
- Nationalisation is a last resort, it's not the answer to our problems - I don't know whether anyone else has noticed, but the terms of the debate on Britain's banks have shifted dramatically - 23rd January 2009
- Will Gordon Brown's bank gamble pay off? - In the early 14th century, Robert the Bruce, on the run from his enemies and hiding in a cave, was inspired to redouble his efforts by the sight of spider spinning a web - 20th January 2009
- Banks need to decide on a long-term plan, as well as some quick fixes - 16th January 2009
- Financial crisis: Boring jobs are still jobs - so be thankful - Americans who lived through the Great Depression have remained frugal in their spending and prudent in their saving throughout their lives - 13th January 2009
- British banking shake up is far from over as economy worsens - Traditional seasonal good wishes for a happy and prosperous 2009 may be a little too optimistic this year, given the parlous state of the economy - 6th January 2009
- Belt-tightening improves the feelgood factor - Fear drives a recession but most people can't save enough to stave off the dire effects of losing their job - 30th December 2008
- Recession: Jaguar Land Rover must now turn itself into a viable business - Happy Christmas. The taxpayer has just won a welcome, though potentially brief, reprieve - 23rd December 2008
- Bernard Madoff `fraud' is icing on the cake of failure to stop excess - The retreating tide of the financial crisis has already revealed the wreckage of some of the world's largest banks; now even less appetising debris is being exposed - 19th December 2008 (Summary of Bernard Madoff news articles here)
- Should I have helped my mother to die? - When I forced myself to consider my mother's predicament, I knew that assisted suicide would be the best way out for her. But it was distressing to think about it - 16th December 2008
- Darling's seven options for an effective banking system - It's time to roll out plan B. British banks aren't lending as much as the government wants them to - or the weakening economy needs them to - despite the recent wave of bank recapitalisations - 13th December 2008
- In a global crisis, is it safer to think local? - worldwide plans are now on hold as domestic economies call for attention - 9th December 2008
- Only determined optimists think housing market has hit bottom - Housing market forecasts for the next few years are all over the place, the reality is it is pure guesswork - 5th December 2008
- Obama's team will repair US image - America needs all the friends it can get, a fact the new Obama national security team appear to grasp - 2nd December 2008
- Great news – we're all getting younger - As well as the recession, there is a slower-moving but dramatic shift in the demographic cycle, which is just starting to kick in - 2nd December 2008
- Nationalising the banks is an act that should be kept in the wings for now - The bickering over bank lending descended into pantomime farce this week. "YOU'RE NOT LENDING ENOUGH!" shrieked Lord Mandelson, who surely has a future on the stage of the Hackney Empire if his political career founders again - 28th November 2008
- Alistair Darling fails to do the business for companies - The UK economy is not going to grow by 2.5 per cent next year, after all. Instead, it is going to shrink by somewhere between 0.75 per cent and 1.25 per cent - 25th November 2008
- Brazil and China emerge as models of stability while UK looks risky bet - When is an emerging market no longer an emerging market? And what happens to developed markets if they start to, well, backslide? - 21st November 2008
- Recession: We need private equity to weather the storm - Many firms will disappear – the survivors must make a positive contribution - 18th November 2008
- Reputation for cost-cutting a most valuable asset in corporate Britain - 14th November 2008
- GM bail out would be a step too far - Governments cannot bail out every industry that hits trouble and car makers should not be encourage to produce cars nobody wants - 12th November 2008
- Bad banker. Now take your punishment - For the next few years, lenders are going to have the same social status as Harry Potter's elves - 11th November 2008
- It seems galling that the cut’s biggest beneficiaries may be the banks - Like a weary parent worn down by relentless pestering, the Bank of England has capitulated. “No. No! I said, no! …Oh go on then, have a 1.5 point rate cut.” - 7th November 2008
- Financial crisis: Why bother saving, when you can spend it? - With stalled stock markets and interest rates heading south, it's time to have a little fun - 4th November 2008
- Bank brands caught between rhetoric and customer loathing - 24th October 2008
- Will banks become government puppets? - How will control at 'arm's length' work when there are so many conflicts of interest? - 21st October 2008
- Hedge funds don't need punishing - they are suffering enough - Giulio Tremonti, the Italian finance minister, wants to destroy hedge funds – not just a few dodgy ones, but the whole “hellish $2trillion industry”. And when Italy takes over the presidency of the G8 nations in January, he’s going to get on the case - 17th October 2008
- Bankers should show remorse - A year into the financial meltdown, it would be nice if someone said 'sorry' - 14th October 2008
- Antidotes to financial gloom - the case for turning all those empty executive offices into banana groves - 11th October 2008
- Financial Crisis: The Treasury is walking a thin line between life support and control - Hallelujah. It's Friday and Britain still has a banking system. This may not seem much to cheer about but earlier in the week it was by no means a certainty - 10th October 2008
- Don't believe the Pollyannas of the housing market - When I read the American children's classic to my daughter so she could learn its life-enhancing lessons, I felt, a distinct urge to slap the over-optimistic orphan - 3rd October 2008
- If the banks don’t work, nothing else will - When I hear politicians fumbling for the rhetoric that will demonstrate they only care about real people, and have no interest in helping out struggling bankers, I worry - 1st October 2008
- Guess where banks will recoup losses - Tougher regulations following the credit crunch should not penalise customers but I fear they will - 30th September 2008
- Warren Buffett is no Clark Kent - Superman was thinking only of others, but Mr Buffett has used his cachet to get himself the sort of deal the average investor can only dream of - 26th September 2008
- Bankers must lose their bumper bonuses - Remuneration structures are toxic, create incentives for employees to take excessive risks and corrupt financial markets - 23rd September 2008
- Goldman's prestige may end higher after tumultuous week - Goldman Sachs may emerge with its reputation enhanced after being targeted by short-sellers - 20th September 2008
- Taking pleasure in bankers' pain - Investment banks employ a huge variety of people and very few can be blamed when a bank collapses - 17th September 2008
- Investment banks are not doomed - Big banks will no longer dominate but there will still be plenty of money to be made - 16th September 2008
- Some investment banks could join Incy Wincy spider down the drain - investment bankers, who we all know are pretty smart, tend to behave rather like Incy Wincy spider - 15th August 2008
- Entrust France with our nuclear energy - Selling British Energy to the French is preferable to relying on Russia or Algeria - 12th August 2008
- Watch the City's adulation turn to vilification - An American friend more conversant with the language of psychoanalysis than I am often refers to her "narrative" of events in her life. By this, she means the stories we tell ourselves about things that have happened to us - 8th August 2008
- Never trust the banks when they say: 'Don't worry, we'll be careful' - 4th August 2008
- A recipe for a recovery in UK house prices - Timing is everything in financial markets and it is almost as important in journalism - 1st August 2008
- Water companies are not being encouraged to be innovative and efficient - 29th July 2008
- Who'd want to be an airline boss right now? - What sort of company would you least like to be running, during the current economic downturn? - 25th July 2008
- My life is better, not worse, without a car - Finally, I'm ahead of a trend and it's even saving me money - 22nd July 2008
- Regulators need ammunition to deal with abuse - 18th July 2008
- The banks are still bleeding heavily - The rapid sale of Alliance and Leicester shows the fragility of the British financial system - 15th July 2008
- UK's problems must be looked at in the round - It's not exactly "don't mention the slowdown". But spin doctors seem to have instructed Government ministers never to refer to the current economic slowdown without adding the prefix "global". Global, global, global. The subliminal message is clear: our problems are not home grown; this mess is not our fault - 11th July 2008
- Keep your investors close and don't let your bankers out of your sight - 4th July 2008
- Companies are waking up to the benefits of a happy workforce - 1st July 2008
- Baldrick banks could be wrong to look overseas - Rarely have the Baldricks of British banking been under greater pressure to come up with nifty ideas - 27th June 2008
- One person's luxury is another's essential - Real take-home pay is being squeezed, but the pain may at least curtail conspicuous consumption, argues Tracy Corrigan - 24th June 2008
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