The Financial Times columnist Samuel Brittan wrote recently about the current obsession with reviving old economists' work to look for contemporary lessons.
HOW WILL VAT HIKE AFFECT INFLATION?
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.
The investment trust industry, in some corners, finds itself in one of the periods of attacks it seems to face every couple of years. Many generalist trusts are relatively easy prey for so-called arbitrageurs.
Martin Gray, manager of the Miton Special Situations portfolio, explains why high levels of real estate and consumer debt will cause further problems for an over-geared banking sector.