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From bank vaults to the crypt

24/12/202224/12/2022 - 2 Comments.

The Coppola column Crypto currencies are dead. Long live the crypto currency? The crypto industry has had a terrible year. The prices of cryptocurrencies have crashed and major crypto companies …

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More or less equal?

23/12/202224/12/2022 - Leave a Comment

My first real consciousness of the super-rich happened as a teenager while working over the summer for my black-sheep uncle, a 1960s hippy turned Parisian artisan woodworker for the rich. …

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Out of pocket rocket

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A tale of the downfall of another powerful predatory male and its aftershocks. So once more I visited the eye-wateringly expensive restaurant, Nobed. It is a haunt of celebrities as …

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Growth… a tale of make believe

04/10/202204/10/2022 - 1 Comment

Where is the fairy dust when you need it?  Frances Coppola goes looking. Ah, the lovely economic growth fairy. It flutters around the world, resting briefly here, lingering longer there, …

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How to clean up in a trickle down

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Professor Bastion gets Trussed up as she witnesses opportunities in Kiev. When I heard the new PM’s words, “I am willing to be unpopular”, I felt goosebumps.  At last an …

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Whose news?

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So COP27 is in November.  Last year the build-up seemed huge for the last international climate conference in Glasgow, COP26.  This time; not so much.   But is that my UK …

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Inflation is a supply-side problem

01/07/2022 - 2 Comments.

When you damage the supply side of an economy, the result is inflation. This ought to be obvious. But forty years of monetarist orthodoxy seems to have rendered people unable …

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Turning back the clock

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When it isn’t always clear that things ain’t what they seem to be. The media is talking about going back to the 70s as if it was a bad time. …

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The 70s? Not again.

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If you remember the 70s then you weren’t there. That was the oft-cited summary of the time as shrouded in a narcotic haze. I, however, do remember the 70s quite …

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Rent asunder

01/04/202204/04/2022 - 3 Comments.

Everybody wants to own their own home and there’s no turning back. Frances Coppola explains. Housing is expensive. So expensive that many people can’t afford to buy homes, and rent …

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