Posted by Guy Clapperton on 14th May 2008.
In case we thought it was going to get better, the Bank of England is now saying inflation is going to get worse. As if we couldn’t have guessed, thanks guys. And yet I don’t think things are as bad as all that.
I know that must seem crazy in the light of the current headlines [...]
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Posted by Guy Clapperton on 7th May 2008.
OK, sanity actually returning when it’s not shown all that many signs of having been around in the first place is a bit of a stretch. Nonetheless, there’s a lot to be said for Anatole Kaletsky’s recent column in the Times about the current economic crisis. Like the Bank of England last week, and the [...]
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Posted by Guy Clapperton on 30th April 2008.
At least that’s what Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England, seems to think according to today’s Times. More particularly he’s concerned that the top executives at said banks are using other people’s money to do it. So the bail-out the other week should be seen as an offer of breathing space and time [...]
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Posted by Guy Clapperton on 2nd April 2008.
Just when we thought things couldn’t look any bleaker for the markets (and by extension the business community), the Bank of England’s chief Mervyn King is playing down the chance of any rate cut next week.
I suppose you can see why; he has to think about inflation rather than rescuing the economy if indeed it [...]
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Posted by Guy Clapperton on 20th December 2007.
We’re short of an announcement. As outlined in the Daily Telegraph’s blog, we were supposed to know by now whether Mervyn King is staying on at the Bank of England before June.
Christopher Hope in the Telegraph clearly thinks Gordon Brown will keep him because there’s so much at stake, for both business and personal money [...]
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