Conservatives
07 December 2011
Britain will sign up for fiscal discipline in the eurozone, but not at the expense of our industries or our independence, Prime Minister David Cameron has declared.
14 February 2011
The EU summit on 4 February passed off with surprisingly little drama. The EU nations for once decided to avoid interesting public rows on the future of the euro.
06 January 2011
It is that time when I have to come off the fence about next year. Not that I have been on it.
13 December 2010
The story of the past three years has been a simple and worrying one. Bad central banking in the US, UK and Europe allowed banks to build up too much debt in the system, and then brought the bubble down by shifting too rapidly to tight credit conditions.
29 November 2010
On 2 May, members of the euro helped complete a large bailout for Greece. They did so to avoid a rolling crisis moving the problems on from Greece to other Euroland countries.
22 November 2010
Many investment advisers tell their clients lending to governments is one of the safest things you can do.
05 November 2010
Now we know what a second round of quantitative easing will do. The more the US briefs that it intends to print more dollars, the more money flees into gold, other commodities and emerging markets.
11 October 2010
One of the saddest features of the past decade has been the demise of the company pension scheme.
07 October 2010
Following the Conservative Party conference, Glendevon King's Peter Baum analyses how the Chancellor's strategy for reducing the budget deficit will work
20 August 2010
In recent days sterling corporate bonds have had a little spurt in the markets.
13 August 2010
Many investment professionals happily tell clients the right thing to do for the longer term is invest in equities.
30 June 2010
George Osborne's austerity budget will cause 1.3m job losses over the next five years according to Treasury figures.
14 June 2010
It is not surprising with the national debt at around £156bn the new coalition Government has focused on deficit reduction ahead of encouraging further long-term savings in its first few weeks in office.
31 May 2010
Whisper it softly, but there is a growing acceptance – even approval – for the political freak that is coalition.
07 May 2010
Gilts and sterling are falling sharply this morning as investors react to the likelihood of a UK hung parliament.
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