It’s different this time, or is it? The US Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, and the European Central Bank have become gargantuan, out-of-control, rogue hedge funds. Global central banks have magicked-up hundreds of trillions of dollars in debt and guarantees. Global stock market valuations are stratospheric—buoyed by stock buybacks, funded by record corporate […]

Riots in London, fear in France and Italy, meltdown in Greece and downgrades in Washington.
Occupy movements in every major city. These are worrying times for anyone with half a brain and terrifying for anyone with a whole one. 
Give or take the occasional riot, we in Britain have tended to think we’re relatively safe from […]