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Stephen Hill
Stephen Hill is a businessman who has been published on classical economics and on European philology and philosophy.
Routing the hedgies
Expensive regulation already proven on a dramatic scale not to work at all frightens the hedgies
The bull market is bull
A touch of Spring in the air, a smell of profit, and no sooner are the bulls up, off and running.
Stress test? No stress
Geithner has stress-tested the US banks? He might as well as have tried swatting flies with a rubber band.
Detroit pile-up: many lost
The problem with is there is not a lot worth saving, apart from a strange name that rhymes with stodge.
Move Over, Darling
This budget was a disaster wrapped in a crisis delivered by a wastrel, looking backwards and pleading bankruptcy.
G20 gets a rocket
Kim Jong-il’s contribution to World Peace was two days late, but bless him nonetheless, he did his best.
G20 was a busted flush
A suspicion remains that Brown is worried that the nadir of his career could be going to the IMF to find there’s nothing there.
Climate change? Hot air!
Richard Branson, stop fiddling around trying to make your aeroplanes fly on salad oil, we much prefer good old kerosene.
Don't blame the ratings agencies
It is astonishing how many over-bonused bankers hadn’t understood the message on the tin.
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