In the run-up to the recent agreement on phase I of Brexit, there was mixed news on the extent to which jobs in the City of London would be relocated to other European hubs, primarily Frankfurt. On one hand, we discussed the meeting between US Commerce Secretary, Wilbur Ross, and executives of JPM,

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During his trip to London this week, US Commerce Secretary, Wilbur Ross, wasn’t only defending revelations in the Paradise Papers that he’d invested in a shipping company with ties to the Putin family. He also attended a “closed-door meeting” with executives from JPMorgan, Goldman, HSBC and other

Authored by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com, Roughly two thousand years ago, the government of ancient Rome was facing a serious problem. The tributium capitus, or poll tax, that they had imposed across their provinces was becoming unpopular. And there was among a growing minority of Roman

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