Saturday 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 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
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