A pal working in and around the VC industry asked me the other week what I thought about financial technology, or as…
Expect more panic and desperation soon from those heavily invested in their continued use.
Social change, when it happens, tends to happen faster than we expect. When opinions, practices or social norms shift from some…
I’ve written before that, to some extent, macroprudential policy (policy aimed at reducing risks in the financial system as a whole as opposed to at individual institutions) can be seen as an attempt by central banks to both have…
Greek crisis exposes cracks in the euro’s design that won’t be fixed by Greece leaving.
In a sharp piece of analysis this weekend Paul Mason drew on a military analogy to explain the opening moves in Greece’s negotiations with the Troika (the European Commission, the IMF and the European Central Bank).