How eating sweets can boost your IQ
After three days on the Eurozone, the Deep End turns to the happier subject of confectionery. According to a fascinating… Read more »
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The Eurozone disaster: if you’re already in, there’s no way out
This week the Deep End has mostly been about the Eurozone – and, in particular, George Soros’s must-read essay on… Read more »
The Eurozone disaster: You can run, but you can’t hide
As explained yesterday on the Deep End, Germany has finally agreed that the European Central Bank can make unlimited purchases… Read more »
The next phase of the Eurozone disaster has started
With every post on the Deep End, we aim to feature the most interesting articles the internet has to offer…. Read more »
Heresy of the week: The elites may be corrupt, but then so is everyone else
In a guest post for the Zero Hedge blog, Charles Hugh Smith has some home truths for his fellow Americans:… Read more »
Let’s not be beastly to the Chinese
American politicians have been worrying about China again – and so they should. The trouble is they've been worrying about… Read more »
How the unemployed could work for one other
The Big Society – nice idea, but completely irrelevant in this time of economic crisis. Or is it? According to… Read more »
Natural gas – Israel’s “manna from heaven”
Golda Meir, the Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974, once made a rueful remark about her country’s geographical… Read more »
Next time let’s reshuffle the system not just the ministers
Last week was a lot of fun for Westminster watchers. A more extensive than expected reshuffle provided wonderful entertainment for… Read more »
Heresy of the week: Individualism is not conservative
Today, the Deep End brings you an in-depth review of a major new work of near-impenetrable German philosophy. What better… Read more »
Bailing-out the Greeks – the Eurozone’s magic roundabout
Yesterday, the Deep End may have given readers the impression that there's something amiss with the world’s foremost private sector financial institutions…. Read more »
Big finance: too big to fail or just too big for its boots?
The phrase ‘too big to fail’ can be interpreted in two ways – either to suggest that really big institutions… Read more »
Shale gas – what a fracking liberty! Or is it?
Let’s not name names, but when it comes to energy policy most of what you hear from the Westminster village… Read more »
Let’s spend less on infrastructure!
When we look back at the Victorian era, one thing that puzzles us is how, with an economy a fraction… Read more »
China’s urban wasteland is a bad model for British growth
How many Chinese cities can you name? Obviously, there’s Beijing and Shanghai. Nanjing (Nanking) and Guangzhou (Canton) might also come… Read more »
