Global Finance

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IMF warns of debt ‘timebomb’ thanks to ‘cheap money’ borrowing policies

THE International Monetary Fund warns that low interest rates are encouraging companies to take on a level of debt that could become a “timebomb”. The...

Book Review – The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

For all its potential as a canvas for the display of human suffering, sick-lit never quite made it as a genre. In her 1926...
Century Financial Brokers

Century Financial Brokers: Trusted financial and investment services

With almost three decades of experience and dedication to its ideals, CFB continues to surge ahead Century Financial Brokers was founded by Sulaiman Baqer Mohebi...

Seriously Funny: Michael Lewis

Michael Lewis has been called “the funniest serious writer in America” – the sort of contradictory label that has been pinned to the 55-year-old...
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Cybersecurity fears? Put your head in the Cloud

By MATTHEW SMITH A RECENT government survey found that 39 percent of UK businesses had identified a cyberattack on their business in the previous 12...

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Waiting for the Age of Reason

Her life has been an extraordinary journey across varied political, cultural, and geographical landscapes. She is beautiful, intelligent, courageous, and quite outspoken. Author, campaigner, politician,...
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The Big Fail: South Sudan

Where did it all go wrong? Designed as place where new business could survive and prosper, South Sudan’s devastating collapse into corruption has driven away...
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Zoom meeting from a bomb shelter in Ukraine…

‘Yesterday afternoon,’ writes ANNABEL CLEMENTSON, who submitted the following media release to BV, ‘I joined a call with team members from Ukraine’s Diia.City programme...
DIY disaster

DIY projects can go wrong – as Wesfarmers finds out in...

Home and hardware chain Homebase is sold for the princely sum of £1 – with strings attached… By HAL WILLIAMS THE UK DIY chain Homebase has...
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Does Nanny know what’s best for us…?

By CHARLES WHITE-THOMSON “NANNY finance” — excessive quantitative easing and rate-cutting by central banks — has dominated the world for many years. This overly soft...