Saturday PS: Not quite our type, dear
THIS will not be an original thought, but the Turkish government could well have spared the European Union the trouble of refusing Turkey's membership application. After all, it is hard to see even the...
View ArticleSaturday PS: Feel the G-force (or not)
WEEKEND news reports are already filling up with talk of the doings of the Group of Eight meeting in Northern Ireland, Britain being the current G8 president.For the record, the G8 is the political...
View ArticleSaturday PS: Free tied...sorry, 'free trade'
OVERJOYED at the thought of that European Union-United States trade deal? Neither am I.As David Cameron pranced round in a suit but no tie this week at the Group of Eight meeting in Northern Ireland,...
View ArticleSaturday PS: The Nobel Prize after next?
TRAWLING through that mountain of conventional wisdom and modish 'solutions' that is the report of the Parliamentary banking commission it occurred to me that, somewhere, someone is putting together a...
View ArticleTuesday PS: Sheffield and the euro
I was at Sheffield University yesterday as a guest of Speri, the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute, at an event hosted with the Institute of Economic Affairs. The panel on which I was...
View ArticleSaturday PS: You shake it to the right...
IT has been some years since The Sun newspaper entertained us all with its cut-out-and-keep guides on 'how to spot a lefty'. From memory, there were a couple of hot button issues on which however hard...
View ArticleSaturday PS: The economics of somewhere else
ON January 4 1642, Charles I turned up in Parliament to arrest five MPs whom he believed to be plotting against him. Forewarned, they had very sensibly high-tailed it prior to the King's arrival.The...
View ArticleSaturday PS: Oil and water
ACCOUNTING and sport really don't go well together, as demonstrated again this week with the official claim that the 2012 Olympics delivered economic benefits worth £10 billion.A suspiciously round...
View ArticleSaturday PS: The fiscal frontier?
MANY moons ago, when working for The Guardian, I ran a story based on the prediction of my old friend Ian Angell, professor at the London School of Economics, that 'off-planet banking', with financial...
View ArticleSaturday PS: 1933 - 1973 - 2013?
MY, everyone seems cheery all of a sudden. Apparently, the economy has turned the corner and good times are not too far away. It seems that, in the words of that well-known economic commentator, the...
View ArticleSaturday PS:...and master of none?
BE careful what you wish for. Ever since Britain's calamitous 1990-1992 membership of the European Exchange-rate Mechanism (ERM), I have soldiered away in the good cause of insisting that control of...
View ArticleSaturday PS: Hooked on the medicine
THERE'S a (probably) apocryphal story that the business page of one newspaper greeted the 1938 Munich agreement with the headline: 'Shares fall on peace fears.' Not quite as perverse as it sounds given...
View ArticleSaturday PS: Not great expectations
I was on LBC last night, talking about the revised growth figures published earlier in the day. No-one likes to be a dog in the manger (I don't, at any rate) but I did urge listeners to be cautious...
View ArticleSaturday PS: Classless? Priceless
AS one of the world's slowest readers, I finished Alwyn W. Turner's latest book A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s, (Aurum; £25) - despite having had a copy for two weeks - just as a...
View ArticleSaturday PS: Classless? Priceless
AS one of the world's slowest readers, I finished Alwyn W. Turner's latest book A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s, (Aurum; £25) - despite having had a copy for two weeks - just as a...
View ArticleChange of address
Dear reader(s),My blog has moved to http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/author-dan-atkinson/I hope to see you there.Best wishes,Dan
View ArticleChange of address
Dear reader(s),My blog has moved to http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/author-dan-atkinson/I hope to see you there.Best wishes,Dan
View ArticleSaturday PS: You shake it to the right...
IT has been some years since The Sun newspaper entertained us all with its cut-out-and-keep guides on 'how to spot a lefty'. From memory, there were a couple of hot button issues on which however hard...
View ArticleSaturday PS: The economics of somewhere else
ON January 4 1642, Charles I turned up in Parliament to arrest five MPs whom he believed to be plotting against him. Forewarned, they had very sensibly high-tailed it prior to the King's arrival.The...
View ArticleSaturday PS: Oil and water
ACCOUNTING and sport really don't go well together, as demonstrated again this week with the official claim that the 2012 Olympics delivered economic benefits worth £10 billion.A suspiciously round...
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