Wall Street
The rotten core of Credit Suisse
For scandal, sleaze, hubris and treachery, no financial institution has been a serial offender like the disgraced Swiss bank. Little wonder it was dubbed Credit Swizz or Debit Suisse
Wall Street madness: Trust, by Hernan Diaz, reviewed
‘I don’t trust fiction,’ the famous author told me, both of us several glasses to the good. ‘It contains too…
The Ukraine invasion is good news for Wall Street
Don’t be fooled by the pictures that will shortly start to emerge of traders apparently tearing their hair out against…
The stock market isn’t the success story Trump thinks it is
COVID-19 is still raging, with little sign of coming under control. The economy is already a tenth smaller than it…
Coronavirus’s first victim? Money
The first victim of war, they say, is truth. The first victim of coronavirus, by contrast, is fiscal discipline. Yesterday,…
Market hysteria is not all down to coronavirus
Is this really about a virus? Oil has plunged 30 percent, the S&P Index seven percent. What is happening on…
Earth dying in five billion years I can deal with, but not a world-weary Brian Cox
When you see the opening caption ‘4.6 billion years ago’, it’s a pretty safe bet that you’re watching a programme…
A hedge-fund protagonist – Gary Shteyngart takes aim in Lake Success
‘We lived in a country that rewarded its worst people. We lived in a society where the villains were favoured…
How far can Bernie Sanders go?
Could the socialist senator of Vermont be on track to win the Democratic nomination?
Why Switzerland should have listened to Hong Kong on currency pegs
The Swiss National Bank usually ticks away as quietly as one of its nation’s more expensive timepieces, but when the…
Michael Lewis vs Wall Street's new predators
How the US stock market became ‘a war of robots’
Fists of cash, hookers and a candle in your bum palls after a while
Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street will set the cat among the pigeons as a number of films do.…
Western economies are failing – but capitalism isn’t the problem
Matthew Lynn 25 May 2024 9:00 am
Left-wing polemicists accuse neoliberals, inspired by Friedrich Hayek, of secretly running the world – but if so, they’re not concealing the whole sinister project very well