US mortgages a fairer deal
January 27, 2002
If corporate America is experiencing a rapid recovery (which Alan Greenspan tentatively signalled this week), the main story of the late 1990s is that US houses did not fall in value as they have done in every recession since records began.
Upwardly mobile in the US
January 13, 2002
In 1835, French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville visited America to see how American-style democracy worked.
Eurozone is our comfort zone
January 6, 2002
In all cases the introduction of the new currency has been political with the promoters showing a keen understanding of the propaganda and public relations connected with a strong, unified and instantly recognisable currency.







