30 Sept 2008

London and New York after the Credit Crunch

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Both Cities may well remain the dominant financial centres after the credit crunch has been consigned to history. The common language will c...
29 Sept 2008

Short Selling - Argument in favour

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Arturo Bris argues (Wall Street Journal, 29 Sept 2008) that the ban on short sales of financial shares should be lifted. We think that the a...
28 Sept 2008

Lenders still don't get it

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InBev is borrowing $45 billion to finance its $52 billion acquisition of Anheuser-Busch. How can the banks justify this sort of lending give...
27 Sept 2008

Third Runway at Heathrow

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Every time I see the expression 'City Grandee' I must cringe as it immediately produces the image of a worthy but not very effective...

Credit is always scarce

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With respect to the current credit crisis Ann Pettifor claims (Financial Times, 30 Sept 2008) that 'there are no intrinsic reasons for t...

Rational Lending reappears

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Lenders refuse mortgages based on City bonuses. Is sanity finally returning to the property caroussel?
23 Sept 2008

Should Private Equity Funds be allowed to buy into Banks?

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Desperate times call for desperate measures. That seems to be the thinking behind discussions whether or not it should be made easier for Pr...
12 Sept 2008

Lehman: Short Raiders 1 : Regulators Nil

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That is the score in the game of chicken played between the band of short sellers intent on pushing another Investment Bank over the brink a...
15 Jul 2008

Wipe out Fannie Mae Equity and profit handsomely!

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Anyone who still has doubts about the ability of the authorities to deal with the fall-out from the sub-prime credit crisis would have been ...
9 Jul 2008

Does the FSA have the right priorities?

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We were recently trying to find the site where the FSA publishes the Disclosure Reports about Short Positions in the shares of companies tha...