A cross-field punt
A novelist and a mathematician have combined forces to produce a fictional account of the Lehman Brothers’ crash that injects life into soulless corners of financial teaching reading lists. Review …
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The point of no return
The disintegration of growth is irreversible. Roxana Bobulescu explains. I was born in Romania in 1972 when athe country was a socialist republic. It was the year of the Meadows …
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Dependency issues
Coming out of the pandemic crisis will be a difficult political and economic balancing act for the Eurozone. And Germany stands to topple, says Dirk Ehnts. The Eurozone is a …
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Follow the money
Self-styled comedian and economist, Susie Steed, tells how her guided walk around the City turned into a tour of the British Empire. I never set out to run a tour …
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Banking off road
Don’t consult the map while making a handbrake turn. What an unreality of a year so far. Society has done a handbrake turn and we are hurtling in an unmapped …
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Covid confusion: going viral
Frances Coppola shows where the truth lies. If there is one industry that has flourished under coronavirus, it is the statistics industry. Never have so many statistics been produced, charted, …
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The class divide
Nigella Vigoroso-Heck asks: if Eton can do it why can’t my local comp? It has been 14 weeks since we closed the school gates. In that time I have: conducted …
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Fake news (the emperor’s old clothes)
Tom London tells how self-aggrandisement, warmongering and bribing the population was a feature of national leadership millennia before any president. Like the Fascist dictator Mussolini, evoking the Roman Empire, and …
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How Asia’s clothing factories switched to making PPE – but sweatshop problems live on
Personal protective equipment (PPE) has arguably become the most sought-after commodity in the world. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a global shortage of this equipment. This has created an …
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Interview: Steve Keen – Why not?
Steve Keen is currently viewing the world from Thailand, which is remarkably now almost virus free. He arrived there with his Thai partner on one of the last flights in …
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