Pecked to death
Frances Coppola on the power of salacious rumour. On Friday 10th March, a bank died. Silicon Valley Bank’s sudden failure sent shockwaves across the world. How could an apparently sound …
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Susan Strange saw the financial crisis coming, Your Majesty
Nat Dyer gives the late Professor Susan Strange credit for having the answers and argues she deserves still more. There is something odd about one of the iconic stories we …
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The pandemic recovery needs to be measured in well-being—not just GDP
Once a country’s economy reaches a certain level of wealth, gross domestic product—which puts a single dollar value on a country’s total economic output—is no longer a good measure of …
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A quiet crisis: As the economy fractures, violence soars for Afghan women
Fatima lay in bed at the internal medicine ward at the bustling Mirwais Hospital in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar – a black scarf draped over her head and …
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Seeking Virtue in Finance
From the publisher: Since the Global Financial Crisis, a surge of interest in the use of finance as a tool to address social and economic problems suggests the potential for …
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2008 vs 2020: What to expect for Britons graduating into the Covid-19 recession
Millennials who graduated between 2006 and 2012 were less likely to find full-time jobs, and when they did find them, their employers generally paid and trained them less. They were …
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Shorn of the debt
Peter Manley describes the horrors of walking dead companies and the dangers in killing them off. The Coronavirus pandemic has put much of the world’s economy on financial life support, …
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Changes brought on by coronavirus may help lower emissions
New projections for economic growth in 2020 suggest the that impact of the coronavirus might significantly curb global emissions. The effect is likely to be less pronounced than during the global …
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Sabotage: The Business of Finance
From the Publisher: Financial malpractice, we’re told, is an aberration: the actions of a few bad apples deviating from the norms of a market-governed process and gaming the system. In …
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Saint Mark’s square roots
An excerpt from The Venetian Files – a novel by Izaias Almada and Matheus Graselli. September 12-14, 2008: New York City, USA Hank Paulson managed to get Alistair Darling on …
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