DABERIAM LXXXIV

Since May we have seen little change in the trends around the world – more of the same. The Middle East continues to polarise along sectarian lines with Isis’s announcement of the establishment of a caliphate – or new Islamic State...

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DABERIAM LXXX

It seems a long time since October when the US government decided to frighten the world’s financial systems by taking party political bickering to within a whisker of causing the government to default. The pantomime passed and the curtain came down but the lasting impression left on thinking people in the rest of the world is that the US system of Government is dangerously dysfunctional...

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DABERIAM LXXIX

In August, when I last put pen to paper, the final sentence read: “There are dramatic changes afoot in the world order.” Since then the US politicians decided to add a further layer of chaos to the financial system...

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DABERIAM LXXV

March has been an interesting month. Having just returned from a trip to Singapore, Chiang Mai in Northern Thailand, Shanghai (with side trips to two regional towns), and a day in Hong Kong, one arrives back at a Third World airport called Terminal 5, London...

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DABERIAM LXXIII

The atmosphere of economic gloom that surrounds western economists and journalists is beginning to feel like a comfort blanket. Those who have to take decisions today about future investment, particularly investments that may take a year or more to mature, have to be exceedingly cautious of current economic fashion...

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