Brexit: End of the Road
The UK has run out of time for Brexit machinations, even if that isn’t well recognized yet.
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Another Theresa May Faceplant as the Brexit Clock Ticks: Speaker Bercow Nixes Another Meaningful Vote in Current Session [Updated]
Brexit demonstrates the saying, “Things look the darkest before they go completely black.”
Read more...Report from the Ground in Paris: The Most Recent Gilets Jaunes Protests
A report from Colonel Smithers.
Read more...Shotgun Marriage: Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank Discuss Merger
Even by the low standards of necessity-driven bank mergers, the proposed tie up of Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank looks particularly dodgy.
Read more...Brexit: The Kindness of Strangers
The Thursday Brexit votes put the UK officially at the mercy of the EU.
Read more...Brexit: Send in the Clowns
May takes yet more body blows….while the no deal threat is not yet disarmed.
Read more...Brexit: Chaos Visible
Things continue to go badly for Theresa May’s Brexit.
Read more...The EU Is Facing Gigantic Questions About Its Future That Are Hidden in Obscure Bank Policy Decisions
The ECB again rides in to try to paper over fundamental problems with the EU’s structure and to offset is austerity bias by restarting QE. But the EU needs more government spending. Will it take another crisis to get there?
Read more...Medicare for All (the Perplexed)
A French lesson on Medicare for All.
Read more...Brexit: Slouching Towards Bethlehem
No one knows what is set to happen on Brexit day.
Read more...Brexit: MPs Sink to a New Collective Low of Incompetent Acquiescence
Motion on the Brexit front does not necessarily amount to progress.
Read more...Brexit: May’s Endgame
Theresa May presses on with her Brexit game of chicken.
Read more...France’s Institutional System Favours Rebellion Against Its Leader
The gilet jaunes movement proves that France’s political and budgetary centralism, the source of citizens’ feelings of abandonment and revolt, must be reformed.
Read more...Brexit: The Test of the Ultras?
Another supposed big Brexit day in Parliament. Will this prove to be yet another damp squib?
Read more...Believing Six Impossible Things Before Brexit
Everyone around her is so weak that May still is very much in charge of Brexti, and that’t not a good outcome.
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