Opinion

FIVE OF THE BEST

Economic growth forecasts of 3.4% for 2011 remain around the long-term average.

Regulators have rightly been puzzling over what could go wrong from here. They are spoilt for choice, as they seek to distinguish between the risks that can be well managed, and the risks that might in bad circumstances bring the system down again.

It is silly season in the world of international finance. Thomas Cook has confirmed trading is a little tight and its shares have plummeted.

‘The public wants what the public gets', sang the prime minister's favourite group The Jam three decades ago, in a tirade against press barons and human apathy.

I have only ever met Gerald Ronson once, and that might be overstating it. He was standing in the dock at Southwark Crown Court, accused of his involvement in something older readers will remember as the Guinness scandal.

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