Sunday, 10 October 2010

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard


Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard has covered world politics and economics for a quarter century, based in Europe, the US, and Latin America. He joined the Telegraph in 1991, serving as Washington correspondent and later Europe correspondent in Brussels. He is now International Business Editor in London.

LATEST FROM AMBROSE EVANS-PRITCHARD

The hi-tech miracle rescuing Ireland from a banking crisis

Alone among the debt–stricken states of the outer eurozone, Ireland has a booming export base.

08 Oct 2010

Ireland must honour its debts, says business boss

Irish business federation head Danny McCoy warns a default on the junior debt of Anglo Irish Bank and other lenders would be a breach of faith.

06 Oct 2010

IMF admits that the West is stuck in near depression

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard says Chapter Three of the IMF's World Economic Outlook more or less condemns Southern Europe to death by slow suffocation.

03 Oct 2010

Capital controls eyed as global currency wars escalate

Stimulus leaking out of the West's stagnant economies is flooding into emerging markets, playing havoc with currencies and economies.

29 Sep 2010

Gold is the final refuge against universal currency debasement

States accounting for two-thirds of the global economy are either holding down their exchange rates by direct intervention or steering currencies lower in an attempt to shift problems on to somebody else, each with their own plausible justification. Nothing like this has been seen since the 1930s.

26 Sep 2010

Ireland faces double dip, hints at debt restructuring

Irish borrowing costs hit post-EMU record as fears over Europe's debts grow after Dublin warns Anglo Irish Bank creditors of losses.

23 Sep 2010

The IMF itself has become the problem as Europe's woes return

Once a quorum of big names says the game is up in a debt crisis, events move fast and furiously.

19 Sep 2010

US escalates China clash

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner issued his harshest attack to date on China’s currency policy in an escalating superpower clash.

16 Sep 2010

IMF fears 'social explosion' from world jobs crisis

America and Europe face the worst jobs crisis since the 1930s and risk "an explosion of social unrest" unless they are careful, the IMF has warned.

13 Sep 2010

The backlash begins against the world landgrab

The neo-colonial rush for global farmland has gone exponential since the food scare of 2007-2008.

12 Sep 2010

City's casino days are over, warns EU's Barnier

The Phoney War between Brussels and Anglo-Saxon finance is at an end and life is about to change for London's financiers, traders and hedge funds.

09 Sep 2010

EU to lift the rock on abusive high finance

Brussels will use sweeping new powers to end speculation and impose order on the City and other EU bourses, warns Michel Barnier.

09 Sep 2010

Ireland breaks up Anglo Irish as EMU debt jitters return

Ireland is to break up the nationalised lender Anglo Irish Bank, hoping to end a disastrous saga that has shattered confidence in Irish finance.

08 Sep 2010