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Month: May 2010

EU FINANCIAL TAX: UK WILL PAY TWO THIRDS OF TOTAL

There is a lot more at stake for Britain in the EU’sdifficulties than just jingoistic advantage With a […]

John Ward May 24, 2010 €321 billion EU tax fund, UK to pay €204 billion. We just saved £6.2 billion. Hello, wakey-wakey.

ANALYSIS: Humans aren’t wired to understand the speed of market events.

The Slog has written before about Full Circle Investments, the so-called ‘contrarian’ wealth management company with an admirable […]

John Ward May 24, 2010 investors will be taken aback by speed of events from here on, major austerity now a certainty., Stock market declines

BREAKING…Annual inflation rate at 11% and accelerating.

The deficit is urgent, but the inflation rate is important While CPI figures newly released from the ONS […]

John Ward May 24, 2010 11% UK inflation rate going forward, austerity plus inflation means bad times ahead., breaking from ONS

MARKETS: Logic dictates that the only way is down.

There is a wonderful headline in the FT today, which asserts indecisively that ‘Stocks rise as sense of […]

John Ward May 24, 2010 ftse 5000 will go, Merkel, problems - china, Spain

OFFICIAL: Lazy dogs who drink Guinness all day 1, Fit humans who drink lager 1

You may wonder why scientists in Wisconsin feed Guinness to dogs (as indeed do I) but today comes […]

John Ward May 24, 2010 exercise makes you look younger, Guinness good for you, research strikes again.

The Royal family must become an elite once more.

The Windsors can no longer leave marriages to chance I think I’d probably pay somebody half a million […]

John Ward May 23, 2010 Andrew, Fergie sting, Murdoch, Royals should retrench into sense of duty.

A small injury

Apologies, but while applying secateurs to our hedge this afternoon, I managed to apply them to an important […]

John Ward May 23, 2010 Sylvia Peters, Test Card

ANALYSIS: The last thing capitalism needs is a new orthodoxy.

The Sunday essay:Capitalism has lost touch with its consumers.The only way it will solve this is by getting […]

John Ward May 23, 2010 capitalism does not need new orthodoxy, it needs to get back in touch with a changed world.

The Euro this week: the one thing that remains unexplained.

To summarise before we start – and things begin to get complicated: the Euro rose the most it […]

John Ward May 22, 2010 Euro ups and downs, Goldman Sachs, in, long, out, perfect environment for directionalising, short

SPORT: How to screw up the national finances – host a big tournament.

This from the England 2018 World Cup bid team nine days ago: ‘The 2018 bid chief executive, Andy […]

John Ward May 22, 2010 hold all sports events in Switzerland., how to bankrupt a country, make business and banking pay, Olympics, World Cup

Will China in 2011 turn out to be our generation’s 1929 USA?

When it comes to China futures, American stock-betting guru Hugh Hendry is at the opposite end of the […]

John Ward May 22, 2010 Beijing leadership lacks experience, Bull or Bear, China outlook, could be trouble ahead., O'Neill vs Hendry

EUROZONE: Flanders and the battle between calm and panic

Yesterday, I posted the following on the comment thread of the BBC’s Stephanie Flanders – who wrote another […]

John Ward May 22, 2010 calm v panic, Eurozone, long-term reform needed., Slog comment, Stephanie Flanders

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