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While the eyes of the world focused on the market reaction to the stalemate in the UK election and the ongoing travails of the euro, the tanks rolling through Red Square in Moscow on Sunday to celebrate 65 years since VE day were a reminder that there are bigger issues rumbling out there that are …

Goldman Sachs plays into the hands of the regulation mob The recent travails of Goldman Sachs certainly inspire more schadenfreude than sympathy at first glance, but the effect over the weeks since the news first broke has been to strengthen the hand of those who wish to regulate financial services out of existence. The temptation …

It is too easy to become depressed when reading current market news dominated by the legalities of Goldman Sachs operation and the convulsions in the euro-zone caused by the Trojan Horse that is the Greek economy, but when one looks beyond that there are some western economies that are showing that all is not lost …

When I heard that the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission have blocked National Australia Bank’s bid for the purchase of the AXA Asia Pacific and has instead given the go-ahead to the rival bid from AMP my first reaction was that regulatory interference in the market has got to be good for the consumer. But …

As I watched the new reports of the disruption caused by the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull over the weekend, it struck me that there were lessons here for all businesses, not just the airline industry. The sudden and massive disruption to the airlines by forces outside man’s control, showed how powerless the companies were in the …