Posts by Maggie Pagano
Wednesday, 20 March 2019
German banks mega-merger looks like crony capitalism on an epic scale
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Friday, 15 March 2019
Book Review: The City Grump rides out
For three decades or so, Stephen Hazell-Smith was one of the City’s most successful and genial of fund managers, cutting..
By Maggie Pagano
Wednesday, 13 March 2019
We need some Brexit optimism and a Norway-style route out of the EU
This is the Maggie Pagano on Business weekly newsletter for Reaction subscribers. Cometh the hour, cometh the man. That man..
By Maggie Pagano
Thursday, 7 March 2019
Second hand ticket marketplaces are fair for consumers
At the time of writing, there are 184 tickets priced at about £170 each for sale on the Viagogo ticketing..
By Maggie Pagano
Thursday, 14 February 2019
Germany avoids recession, just
By the skin of her teeth, Germany dodged a technical recession in the final quarter of 2018 with growth of..
By Maggie Pagano
Thursday, 7 February 2019
Has President Macron finally blown his fuse?
Twelve weeks of persistent rioting by the gilets-jaunes across France failed to crack the President’s resolve yet an onslaught of..
By Maggie Pagano
Friday, 1 February 2019
Brexit scaremongering is backfiring in the country
One of the bitter lessons that Remain campaigners learnt from their humiliating referendum defeat was the brilliant use of language..
By Maggie Pagano
Wednesday, 16 January 2019
Why stubborn May survives
If Theresa May survives today’s vote of confidence – which looks likely with DUP support – then the big question..
By Maggie Pagano
Wednesday, 9 January 2019
Tory rebels binding government's hands on tax is a bad idea
There’s a delicious irony to Yvette Cooper’s victory in leading a gang of Tory rebels to block a no deal..
By Maggie Pagano