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Diary

If anyone knows May’s secret plan, it’s Philip

12 January 2019

9:00 AM

12 January 2019

9:00 AM

As a hack who lived and breathed the financial crisis, you might think that at the start of 2008 and 2009 I would have been more anxious about what lay ahead than I am today. Wrong. In my understanding of the mechanistic link between a bust banking system and the wallop to our prosperity, I could at least broadcast about what needed to be done to clean up the mess.

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