Pragmatist

With the UK general election looming in May, I thought I'd declare my apolitical hand: I'm hoping for another 'hung' Parl...

Good to see the short sellers doing the regulators' work for them again - not that the authorities like it.  Last week, Spain...

As one who loathes the use of party-political dogma to muddy the waters of sensible debate , I was delighted to read Tim Worstall 's li...

Westiminster recently feigned shock and horror that the UK's coppers cook the crime figures. But Simon Jenkins says we've known ...

Ross McEwan's appointment as CEO of RBS roundly endorsed his remark that he has been "quite surprised by how bad this industry ...

Source: Guardian/Observer The spin doctors are feverishly applying lipstick to RBS, so it can be 're-privatised' in time for ...

In March I related a story about the unduly deferential meeting protocol at the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street , and hoped it was more ...

There has been a futile tendency amongst regulators to view 'simple' retail financial services as merely 'basic' or ...

By now we've witnessed the disasters that resulted from a lack of critical thought amongst auditors , ratings agencies , the Federal ...

For those engaged in the process of empowering consumers, 2012 is already a fascinating year. So it was timely that a bunch of us met at Ct...

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all ...

The IMF seems to be having a bad year. First it was accused of 'groupthink' . Then it was rumoured (again) to be considering Gordon ...