Lloyds Bank Resurrects 0%-Down Adjustable-Rate Mortgages for First-Time Buyers to Prop Up UK’s Housing Market by Don Quijones • Jan 30, 2019 • 31 Comments Desperate measures for desperate times?
“Worst December in 10 Years”: Brick-and-Mortar Retail in the UK Faces Overindebted Consumers by Don Quijones • Jan 26, 2019 • 54 Comments But online sales are hot, now at 20% of total retail.
Uber, Cabify “Evicted” from Barcelona as Turf War with Taxi Drivers Gets Ugly by Don Quijones • Jan 24, 2019 • 27 Comments Will Madrid be next?
Brexit’s Ironic Twists Hit Spain’s Biggest Industry by Don Quijones • Jan 20, 2019 • 60 Comments “Peak Tourism” has already set in. Brits account for 22% of tourists in Spain. Now add Brexit.
Turkey’s Debt Crisis Deepens, Erdogan Bails out Banks His Way by Don Quijones • Jan 15, 2019 • 13 Comments Shifting bad consumer & business debts from banks to the public, but the way this bank bailout got packaged is pretty nifty.
Automakers Prepare for “No-Deal” Brexit by Don Quijones • Jan 12, 2019 • 57 Comments They’re already under pressure from the deteriorating market.
Italy’s New Government Eats Its Words, Joins Bank Bailout Club by Don Quijones • Jan 10, 2019 • 30 Comments Well, that didn’t take long. Whatever happened to Eurozone’s new bail-in rule?
Brexit Moment in 80 Days, No One Knows What’ll Happen, London’s Finance Industry on Tenterhooks by Don Quijones • Jan 8, 2019 • 90 Comments The stakes are enormous.
Mexico Kicks Off War on its Vast Black Market for Oil by Don Quijones • Jan 1, 2019 • 18 Comments “It’s not easy to distribute and sell the pilfered contents of 600 pipelines each and every day.”
UK Housing Bubble Swoons as Brexit-Day Nears. London Hit Hardest by Don Quijones • Dec 29, 2018 • 34 Comments Rampant unaffordability and a slew of other reasons.
