By Julian Donnelly 16th August 2016 Who would have thought it after all this time? We have a female Prime Minister, a Labour Party in disarray, a turbulent economy with a negative outlook, and a tough talking leader stomping about the Kremlin keen to throw his weight around ….please tell me I didn’t […]
Read moreBy Julian Donnelly 27th January 2016 Love it or hate it, nothing seems to polarise opinion quite like the letters “EU”. Since our entry into the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1973, it is a subject which has divided both opinions and indeed political parties ever since. With a referendum on the subject […]
Read moreBy Julian Donnelly 9th October 2015 I wrote back in July that it was seemingly likely that interest rates would go up either by the end of this year or early 2016. It now appears that the markets are not expecting a rate for another year possibly (I believe this was the same last […]
Read moreBy Julian Donnelly 21st July 2015 I find it interesting that things seem to be going almost full circle in the banking sector, almost back to how it was when I first started in 1990. With the re-appearance of TSB (“the bank that likes to say yes”), we could also see the resurgence of another […]
Read moreBy Julian Donnelly 6th August 2014 So, the UK apparently has the fastest growing economy in the G7 and we had 0.8% GDP growth in Q2 2014, so we’re out of the woods from an insolvency perspective? Far from it – let me explain…. I was recently chewing the fat with an old friend who […]
Read moreby Julian Donnelly 19th April 2014 Everyone has heard about the “economic cycle”, but few people really understand the history behind it. As the old saying goes “what goes up, must come down” is as true to global economics as anything else. Everyone has heard about The Wall Street Crash in 1929 which started the […]
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