From Catalonia to Caledonia

Over the last year or so, there is one man that has become a source of pain for some in the financial services sector. Some journalists don’...

Someone asked me the other day how Spanish democracy compares to other European states given its troubled history. I have a reply ready for ...

If you are a regular of this blog, you will have noticed that nowadays I don’t write about Catalan/Spanish politics very often. It is too de...

During the last few weeks, I also thought about writing a series of articles about the (financial) mess we are in, and how banks and financi...

For months, I had been planning to write an article about Barrack Obama. Its title was meant to be “Obama and the promise of change”. But th...

It is rather worrying when the big news is that the democratic process is allowed to happen naturally, normally and without the threat of vi...

It is pandemonium in Can Trenator. Buying a new house, putting the flat out in the rental market, getting engaged, birth of gorgeous wee nie...

Overheard in the restaurant: Fund Manager: "I'm quite pessimistic about the current financial system. I've been buying gold....