From Promoting Economic Pluralism
Sometimes the profane, inarticulate and wrong have to be heard. We don’t, however, have to take them seriously or at any cost. Frances Coppola explains. GB News has sacked the …
The price of free speech (or why we can’t always shut the fuck up) Read More
Our collective memories of the lessons learned from wars and crises past have faded. Frances Coppola looks for future guidance. The longer our financial and economic system goes without a …
Paradigm Shift Read More
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 …
Pecked to death Read More
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 …
From bank vaults to the crypt Read More
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, …
Growth… a tale of make believe Read More
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 …
Inflation is a supply-side problem Read More
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 …
Rent asunder Read More
Petrodollars to solar sense: what will be the conversion rate? Frances Coppola speculates. Slowly but surely, the world is giving up on fossil fuels. First coal, then oil, and finally …
A ray of hope Read More
The Coppola Column How governments could weaponise digital banking against “undesirables.” And how to prevent it. In the past 50 years, financial services have changed beyond all recognition. Not just …
Brake the bank Read More
Broken trust has to be fixed. Frances Coppola explains why there is no substitute. The foundation of human society is trust. Right from the start of their lives, humans trust …
What’s love got to do with it? Read More