Brexit: Wheels Coming Off
Brexit pains are becoming more and more evident.
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Will the Senate Confirm Coup Plotter Victoria Nuland?
Showing his true uber-hawkish colors, Biden wants to put Victoria Nuland in a position where she can do even more damage.
Read more...A Festive Message on Behalf of DiEM25 for 2021: “Because Things Are the Way They Are, Things Will Not Remain the Way They Are.” B. Brecht
Is Brecht our guide to 2021?
Read more...Wall Street Mega-Landlord Blackstone Prepares to Reap the Spoils of Another Crisis
Blackstone was a big winner of the last crisis. Now, it hopes to repeat the feat, albeit using a somewhat different playbook.
Read more...Quick Notes on the Brexit Deal
Brexit: an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is.
Read more...UK’s Covid and Brexit Siege
Fog on the Covid and Brexit fronts.
Read more...Brexit Event Horizon and Covid Mutation Deliver Lumps of Coal to UK for Christmas
“It’s always darkest before things go completely black.” That looks like a fit for Brexit.
Read more...Brexit: End of the Line
Even with the EU giving as much Brexit time as it can, December 31 is coming.
Read more...Brexit: Too Late for Fudge?
The options for extending the Brexit runway don’t look promising.
Read more...City of London Frets About Life After 2020
The City’s vast financial services sector benefited hugely from the creation of the euro. Now, a large part of that business is at risk.
Read more...Brexit Chaos Was Entirely Predictable Because the World Works on Routine, and Brexit Breaks All the Routine Systems on Which Trade Has Relied
Brexit disruption has started even with a skimpy deal still theoretically possible.
Read more...Brexit: Stumbling
More Brexit posturing, but also some hardening of positions when both sides would need to give to get a deal.
Read more...Brexit: The Barnier Cliff
December 31 is a Barnier deadline too.
Read more...This Is What Can Happen When a Cross-Border Bank Merger Goes Horribly Wrong
As Banco Sabadell’s disastrous acquisition of UK TSB has shown, a bank merger can founder due to botched IT integration.
Read more...Big Banks Grow Bigger and Smaller Banks Disappear, As Mergers Return to Crisis-Hit Eurozone
A fresh wave of bank failures and mergers are set to trigger a new round of consolidation of the Eurozone’s banking system
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