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George Osborne is entitled to look smug

26 April 2014 9:00 am

The popular pastime for financial commentators this season is sticking pins in George Osborne. To those on the left who…

Should the Co-op be preparing for its own funeral?

19 April 2014 9:00 am

‘Care, respect, clarity and reassurance’ are what the Co-operative funeral service says it offers the bereaved, and the parent Co-op…

Don’t blame ministers for the Royal Mail sell-off. Beat up the bankers!

12 April 2014 9:00 am

Vince Cable and Michael Fallon, ministers responsible for the Royal Mail sell-off, have been summoned for another select committee grilling…

Is full employment just another of George Osborne’s political stunts?

5 April 2014 9:00 am

‘Full employment’ usually means the lowest achievable rate of unemployment — somewhere south of 5 per cent compared with 7.2 per…

Why I’ll join the silver stampede to cash in a pension

29 March 2014 9:00 am

At the beginning of the last decade, a young man who claimed to be my ‘premier banker’ paid me a…

HS2’s boss is right – it’s push on or be rubbed out

22 March 2014 9:00 am

I’m sure HS2 chairman Sir David Higgins is right to argue that if we’re serious about building a new north-south…

Any other business: Turn down those token directorships, girls, and tell them you want to be chairman

15 March 2014 9:00 am

Last Saturday was International Women’s Day, but we celebrated early in Helmsley when my Yorkshire home town was featured in…

Any other business: Britain’s chaotic energy policy puts us in Putin’s hands

8 March 2014 9:00 am

To have written last month that the headline ‘Kiev in flames’ looked like a black swan on the economic horizon…

Any other business: Why a trillion dollars of dividends is a milestone worth celebrating

1 March 2014 9:00 am

Dividends paid by listed companies around the world passed $1 trillion for the first time last year, we learn from…

Any other business: The friends of Putin taking home gold from the Sochi Olympics

22 February 2014 9:00 am

Imagine if the BBC’s excitable commentators had been asked to cover the building of Sochi’s facilities, rather than the Winter…

Where I’m looking for the next great banking blow-up

15 February 2014 9:00 am

A reader likens me to Dr Pangloss, the quack philosopher in Voltaire’s Candide who insisted that ‘all is for the…

Any other business: The £1 bet that built a 1,000-strong company

8 February 2014 9:00 am

At a charity lunch in Manchester, I meet a cheerful ‘engagement manager’ from AO.com, formerly Appliances Online, a fast-growing internet…

Ed Balls's secret: he doesn't care whether his tax plan makes sense

1 February 2014 9:00 am

There were a million people who voted Labour in the 2005 general election but not in 2010, when the party…

Any other business: How François Hollande let France miss the global recovery train

25 January 2014 9:00 am

I’ve always respected stationmasters, but that sentiment is not universally shared. A distinguished friend of mine across the Channel described…

Any other business: Oh dear... perhaps Standard Chartered isn't as dull as it looks

18 January 2014 9:00 am

The cautionary tale of the Co-operative Bank, its black hole and its naughty chairman has recently taught us that if…

Martin Vander Weyer: Why I’d rather run M&S than Tesco

11 January 2014 9:00 am

This first working week of January is apparently the time when we’re most likely to think about a change of…

Martin Vander Weyer: In my hospital bed, I saw the future of the NHS

4 January 2014 9:00 am

I blamed the pheasant casserole, but I did it an injustice. Its only contribution to the drama behind my disappearance…

Martin Vander Weyer: How many times must we save the City?

14 December 2013 9:00 am

Top of my Christmas reading pile is Saving the City by Richard Roberts, a new account of the largely forgotten…

Lord Bamford on why JCB is staying independent

30 November 2013 9:00 am

‘If I can’t see a factory from up here,’ I mutter to myself, throwing the car round an uphill bend…

Martin Vander Weyer: The Reverend is just a funny sideshow — here's who to blame for the Co-op mess

23 November 2013 9:00 am

The naughty Reverend Flowers will be a comic footnote in the history of the financial crisis — but no more…

Ireland's back, and luck had nothing to do with it

16 November 2013 9:00 am

My man in Dublin calls with joy in his voice to tell me ‘the Troika’ — the combined powers of…

Now the economy is recovering, is it a good idea to buy Poundland shares?

9 November 2013 9:00 am

‘Satan seizes control of saintly bank’ would be a fair summary of much of the coverage of the deal that…

Martin Vander Weyer: Arise, Sir Jim, the hero of the Grangemouth affair

2 November 2013 9:00 am

You know my theory that Unite leader ‘Red Len’ McCluskey is a Conservative secret agent? Well, having watched events at…

Martin Vander Weyer: The BBC should replace Robert Peston with Grayson Perry

26 October 2013 9:00 am

Prediction, as Mervyn King once observed, is ‘a stab in the dark’. Who can say with confidence where the wholesale…

Martin Vander Weyer: Cut it out, America. This is not Hollywood

19 October 2013 9:00 am

Some say it’s natural optimism that makes the Americans so different from the British, and some say it’s a lack…