Alastair GullaninQualitative PleasingHands tied: Why the Bank of England feels obliged to raise rates this weekHere we go again. The MPC is on Thursday poised to raise the benchmark interest rate from 0.5% to 0.75%; potentially representing only the…Jul 31, 2018Jul 31, 2018
Alastair GullaninQualitative PleasingCriticism of Amazon and the US Postal Service is justifiedAmazon has had a torrid few weeks, with its share price down over 10% from an all-time high of $1600 on March 12th. The decline has several…Apr 12, 2018Apr 12, 2018
Alastair GullaninQualitative PleasingLife after eBay: Why PayPal cannot ‘pivot to the blockchain’PayPal hasn’t started 2018 well. After 15 years together, eBay announced that it would not be renewing PayPal’s contract to be its back-end…Mar 15, 2018Mar 15, 2018
Alastair GullaninQualitative PleasingThe pot calling the kettle black: Mario Draghi takes aim at Trump administrationMario Draghi, the president of the ECB and architect of one of the biggest currency devaluation experiments in history, took a…Jan 30, 2018Jan 30, 2018