by Andrew Simms | Sep 13, 2017 | Blog, Weather Bombs
Prof Bill McGuire wonders whether Miami’s financial district will soon give a whole new, literal meaning to going ‘off shore’, ending up 60 km out to sea Rarely, if ever now, does a month go by without more evidence coming to light of the increasingly dire straits we...
by Andrew Simms | Sep 12, 2017 | Blog
Did the banking crisis ever end, or continue in other forms? New Weather teamed up with Prime Economics on the anniversary of the crisis to ask the big questions Click & listen: Finance Shrugged – will the banking crisis happen again? Ten years ago the...
by Andrew Simms | Aug 3, 2017 | Blog, Weather Bombs
Bill McGuire is astonished at how a system of economic self-destruction still carries the label of ‘progress’, after long ago being called-out… Enjoying one of the seminal works on self-sufficiency – The Fat of the Land by John Seymour; first...
by Andrew Simms | Jul 25, 2017 | Blog
Book: Finance Shrugged: 10 years on, will the banking crisis happen again? When: Weds 9th August 2017; 18:00 – 20:00 Where: Congress House, TUC Congress Centre, 28 Great Russell St, London, WC1B 3LS On the day ten years ago, when inter-bank lending froze and the Great...
by Andrew Simms | Jul 3, 2017 | Blog, Weather Bombs
Prof Bill McGuire writes: Grenfell Tower exposed one regulatory failure, but the government is ignoring other official advice to strengthen building regulations to protect homes, schools, hospitals & care homes from the heat of climate change, it’s another...