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FinTech is an evolving technological phenomenon with disruptive potential in primarily consumer financial services at both ends of the office – front and back. FinTech’s…
What problems might arise from tethering the value of money to an essential sustainable service of nature in each host bioregion of the planet? This…
The author Radical Middle, the campaigner Mark Satin, used the metaphor of roads and myopia to explain what he meant by the title. For Satin, it…
After Milton Friedman famously proposed that the sole purpose of business enterprises should be to maximise shareholder value in an article in the New York…
I write this while visiting various parts of the USA. During the trip, I couldn’t resist baiting some of my friends by suggesting that Donald…
That’s a big number. Probably too big for anyone to comprehend. It’s more than three times global GDP. And it’s the amount of outstanding global…
What a confused state economists and central bankers are in these days. One can’t envy them their job – always difficult but apparently now veering…
“How disappointing Mr Bond. Your pitiful little island hasn’t even been threatened.” I recalled these words of Blofeld, the arch-villain of Diamonds are Forever, when…
Published in the Financial Times, August 25, 2017 Sir, Tony Barber, in “Politics motivates Silvio Berlusconi’s parallel currency idea” (FT.com, August 22), notes that critics…
It is more than 17 years now since, I gather, I coined the phrase ‘virtual currencies’. I know this because of Wikipedia which tells me…
This is cross-posted from the New Weather blog… There is a truism about fish, who are said not to wonder overmuch about the nature of…