'Look, if you've been successful, you did not get there on your own. When we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative but...

The injection of £37-billion of taxpayers' money into the capital base of three British banks is the gravest event in the modern financial history...

In the week of the crash in 1929, Wall Street fell by 23%. Last week, it fell by 18%, London and Frankfurt by 21% and Japan's Nikkei by 24%.

Those that were asking for a decisive intervention to halt a financial pandemic certainly got it on Wednesday. It was almost too big for shell-shocked markets to assimilate. Their reaction, in part driven by the mounting sense that this crisis is now international and out of control,...

Earthquakes don't destroy strong, well-built buildings. They destroy weak ones. As China reels from its biggest earthquake in 30 years, public...

One of the most inequitable and amoral acts in modern times is happening in front of our eyes and there is hardly a murmur of protest. The...

The Roaring Nineties

It is the continent with 12% of the world's population but with 80% of the world's Aids deaths. It has experienced 30 years of economic stagnation....