Glienicker Bridge, south-west Berlin In July 1965, I went on an exchange visit to West Berlin, as it […]
Author: John Ward
And Dr Strangelove goes into overdrive Just to update folks, my first source for today’s earlier posting is […]
Wall Street…who gave it a map of the future? DOCUMENTS RAISE AWKWARD QUESTIONS FOR WASHINGTON, IMF & BERLIN […]
One can usually rely on something to rise to the top. With Irish Coffee, it tends to be […]
Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday called President of Chile, Sebastián Piñera (left) to discuss the conflict between Argentina […]
The Wall Street Journal reports that Beijing has offered the EU ‘rhetorical support’ In a spectacular coup last […]
Yesterday’s ‘2.5 billion’ Athens shortfall turns out to be recycled bollocks ‘MONTI WANTS BAILOUT CASH TO HELP EU […]
How this socio-economic model is changing things for the worse in 3,500 ways a year This morning I […]
Veni vidi but not entirely vici…. The cancellation, announced in the last hour, looks ominous in the light […]
Merkel….doesn’t trust Athens German paper Handelsblatt’s article ‘used as plant to prepare ground’ Athens wonders: do Germans not […]
Bank and Sovereign debt commitments have emptied the growth engine’s tank. The range and profundity of EU financial […]
COLOSSAL CHINESE DEBT RESTRUCTURE UNDER WAY Regimes may come and go, democracy may not be present, and markets […]