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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

EU SKETCH: Every wolfpack has a silver lining

I promise I’m not making this up, but a Brussels top-level meeting to discuss the details of the […]

John Ward May 21, 2010 accept reality, Disunited Europe, get rid of unelected, teach elected a lesson, wolfpacks

EXCLUSIVE: IGNORE ALL THE ‘COALITION JUST BLAMING THE OUTGOING GOVERNMENT’ NONSENSE

Alistair Darling’s reverse-spin googly about ‘falsely blaming the outgoing Government’ simply won’t wash. And Treasury officials will get […]

John Ward May 21, 2010 Exclusive Treasury officials ready to leak documents showing Labour and Darling lied about last-minute spending spree.

BREAKING: GOLDMAN SACHS JOINED IN DOCK BY MORGAN STANLEY

Last night US time, the rumour gathering pace on Wall Street – that Morgan Stanley was playing fox […]

John Ward May 21, 2010 breaking...morgan stanley playing goldman sachs tricks, investigation to follow.

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