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Dec 24 2008
MUCH uncertainty remains over just how and when the banking system may return to any sort of normality....
Dec 3 2008
AMBITIOUS is probably the best word to describe this week's proposals from the Government's Committee on Climate Change....
Nov 26 2008
IN THE minds of many of our European neighbours, Britons are obsessed with two things: the weather and queuing. ...
Nov 26 2008
WHEN comparing Mervyn King’s performance in front of the Treasury Select Committee yesterday with Alistair Darling’s emergency Budget speech the day before, it’s hard not to conclude that the former has grasped the scale and true nature of the problem and the latter hasn’t....
Oct 8 2008
OPINIONS are not hard to find in Liverpool. And the business community, like many others across the city, is not slow in coming forwards to offer its view of how the land lies....
Sep 24 2008
I’M NO City whizzkid. If I was, I wouldn’t be sitting here writing this. I would be far too busy counting my fat bonus while showing no concern whatsoever for you or your savings....
Sep 24 2008
SOME may whinge about the acoustics, but St George's Hall will always be one of Liverpool's most impressive and imposing venues for anything "big"....
Sep 17 2008
AS WALL Street went into meltdownon Monday, an auction room in London witnessed amazing scenes of its own. ...
Sep 17 2008
WHEN commentators use words like diving, tumbling, plunging and freezing to describe the financial markets, it creates the impression we are helplessly in the grip of a force of nature, but what is needed now, more than ever, is a cool head....
Aug 27 2008
Choosing a leader for what is after all the most powerful nation on earth is not a job to be done in haste....