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Pecked to death

31/03/202331/03/2023 - Leave a Comment

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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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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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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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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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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A ray of hope

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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 …

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Brake the bank

08/07/202131/12/2021 - Leave a Comment

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 …

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What’s love got to do with it?

28/03/202103/06/2021 - Leave a Comment

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 …

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Learning from the pandemic

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Frances Coppola warns that looking back is not the best way to move forward During the Cold War, there was a genre of disaster fiction along the lines of “life …

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What will time tell?

02/04/202031/12/2021 - Leave a Comment

Covid infection is, for most people, a rough few days. A side effect of mass containment could atrophy our humanity. Frances Coppola evaluates the prospects. The fight against the coronavirus …

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