Neil Collins

26.03.09

Next Wednesday should be a riot in the City. In fact, if it's not, it will prove that we Brits have turned into docile dolts who will swallow anything...
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19.03.09

It's unlikely that Lord (Red Adair) Turner will survive for long as chairman of the Financial Services Authority if his patron is booted out of No10...
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12.03.09

Once upon a time, long ago, the ministers who controlled the Post Office decided that it should offer the people this new-fangled telephone thingy....
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05.03.09

HSBC was the bank that rose above the domestic disasters that swamped its British rivals

02.03.09

In a corner of Brent, there are tangible signs of an alternative to the state system or mortgaging the future to pay for an independent school

19.02.09

Something has gone terribly wrong at Rio Tinto. The chart of the share price looks like a spoil mountain outside one of its mines, and it has achieved...
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12.02.09

Revenge, as everyone knows, is a dish best served cold, and Paul Moore must be feeling satisfied today. It's nearly four years since he was sacked by...
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05.02.09

Sir John Craven is the man who capped a long, distinguished City career by taking on the poisoned chalice marked Lonrho, drinking the contents — and...
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29.01.09

A couple of years back, at the height of the great boom, the world's carmakers were producing five cars for every four buyers. Flying in the face of...
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22.01.09

If there is one thing that will turn today's recession into a full-blown depression, it's more rises in unemployment like last month's. As long as...
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15.01.09

When the biggest bank in the world admits that its business model is unsustainable, you know things are getting serious

08.01.09

Yup, that ban on short-selling of the banks really worked

07.01.09

WHAT Gordon Brown giveth, he taketh away. His first move on entering 11 Downing Street in May 1997 was to give the Bank of England the task of setting...
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18.12.08

We're not going to escape a Dangerous Banks Act - the best we can hope for is that it doesn't make things worse

11.12.08

Gordon Pepper knows as much about money and monetarism as anyone alive, and he’s mad as hell. The Government’s policy, he says, is “confused and...
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04.12.08

Some of the MPC's cut will be passed on in cheaper home loans, but more of it will be sliced off the rates for savers

02.12.08

Eight days on from the PBR, interest rates are likely to fall again and the pound is under pressure

27.11.08

Comment: Of all the ways to cut taxes by £12 billion, the nibble off the VAT bill is the least effective way to dig us out of our financial hole

20.11.08

A sticky weekend looms for the directors of Barclays

13.11.08

It was only three months ago, but it seems like a lost world. In August, the Bank of England Governor was admitting to feeling a slight autumnal chill...
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