The stock market is an integral part of our infrastructure as a society which, thanks to The Wolf of Wall Street, most of us are aware of. However, what actually goes on inside it is usually of little interest except when it goes wrong. 30 years ago, on 19th October 1987, the financial markets went […]
Black Monday
Climbdown in Poland
The ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) in Poland did not have a good start to the autumn. It threw its weight behind new proposals on abortion – already abnormally restrictive in the Catholic, east European nation – which would have effectively have outlawed the practice entirely. Less than a week later, thirty thousand black-clad […]