Author: Andrew Clare

This Sunday the Greek population will effectively either vote to accept the austerity or to leave the Euro. As Americans might say to the Greeks … Read More ›

The Eurozone crisis continues to mesmerise and terrorise the markets in almost equal measure. Since the start of the year the FTSE-100 is down 2% … Read More ›

Captain America is a Marvel comic character, a superhero soldier that managed to defeat his many foes, including most of the German army, virtually single-handedly. … Read More ›

A week ago the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee chose not to extend their programme of quantitative easing. For those of you that were … Read More ›

Last week we got the shocking news that Spanish unemployment is close to one in four. According to official figures at the end of March … Read More ›

Last week we learned that the UK has fallen into a second recession. Growth over the first three months of this year was -0.2% which … Read More ›

Last week the UK’s Chancellor, George Osborne, unveiled his latest budget. Never has so much media attention been focussed on an event of such economic … Read More ›

In a recent report by the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) it was estimated that the Bank of England’s QE programme had caused the … Read More ›

Physicists got all excited recently when they found evidence to suggest that neutrinos – sub atomic particles – could travel faster than the speed of … Read More ›

Soon after the Bank of England was made operationally responsible for the UK’s monetary policy in 1997, the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street went on … Read More ›