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It's Only Music

It's Only Music

[https://www.edmundconway.com/2011/09/its-only-music/onlymusic/] It’s been a while, but here is a selection of my latest and greatest favourite songs. Hope you enjoy. It’s Only Music [https://www.edmundconway.com/Site/Media/onlymusic.mp3] Subscribe to my podcast (iTunes) [itpc://feeds.feedburner.com/EdmundosPodcast]

Eurozone leaders' comedy of errors brings monetary union to the brink

‘I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by,” said Douglas Adams. There’s a thin line between tragedy and comedy, and this weekend the finance ministers of the euro area blundered over it. They gathered in Washington in the shadow of the darkest economic

Bankers pay too low a price for high risks; The Vickers reforms won't go far enough – limited liability should be abolished for banks

Today, Sir John Vickers publishes his Independent Banking Commission’s report into the problems and solutions for the financial system. The contents of the report – a few hundred pages in total – are likely to be largely as predicted: the ring–fencing of retail banks from their investment arms, plus new

Sir John Vickers' banking report: bankers pay too low a price for high risks

Today, Sir John Vickers publishes his Independent Banking Commission’s report into the problems and solutions for the financial system. The contents of the report – a few hundred pages in total – are likely to be largely as predicted: the ring-fencing of retail banks from their investment arms, plus new capital

Abandoning the gold standard was a seminal moment, and one we're now all paying for

Roll out the bunting. Tomorrow is the 40th anniversary of the modern global economy. That’s right: come Monday morning we will have managed to survive four decades of fiat money – though, given the chaos in markets in recent weeks, it is anyone’s guess how much longer it will

My year at Harvard

My year at Harvard

When, earlier this summer, eagle-eyed snappers caught Ed Miliband lugging a pile of holiday reading off to Devon with him, the book that most commentators fixated on was one called Leadership on the Line. What did this choice say about the Labour leader? Had he suffered a crisis of confidence?

News

News

[https://www.edmundconway.com/2011/07/news/dsc_2344/] My latest mix, put together on Fri 8 July, containing all my favourite music from the past few months. Enjoy. News by Edmundo [https://www.edmundconway.com/Site/Media/News.mp3] Subscribe to my podcast (iTunes) [itpc://feeds.feedburner.com/EdmundosPodcast]