“When Trichet, at a meeting of top international monetary officials, defended the franc fort policy against North American critics by telling them… — Bernard Connolly Copy Share Image
“Baldwin, speaking of the 1930s press barons, famously attacked as ‘power without responsibility: the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages’. In” — Bernard Connolly Copy Share Image
“Western capitalism contained is Western capitalism destroyed. Toothless and drugged, the caged tiger is prey to lethargy, disease, premature senility. Worse, only… — Bernard Connolly Economics Copy Share Image
“Schmidt agreed at the Bonn summit of world industrial leaders, in July 1978, to increase Germany’s budget deficit. The Bonn summit was… — Bernard Connolly Economics Copy Share Image
“Unemployment in France is officially put at 12.5%. Youth unemployment is double that. Many people in their twenties have never had a… — Bernard Connolly Copy Share Image
“as the Israeli philosopher Yoram Hazony put it recently, ‘For quite a few centuries, it seems as though it’s been the British… — Bernard Connolly Freedom Copy Share Image
“If anything, the unmistakable clues provided by the reports that highly intelligent and politically aware central bankers and Treasury officials became, as… — Bernard Connolly Central bank Copy Share Image
“By hamstringing the ability of French governments to act in the interests of the French people – or, to put it more… — Bernard Connolly Politics Copy Share Image
“In understanding the collapse of the ERM, however, what is important is that to subordinate domestic (that is, national) economic considerations to… — Bernard Connolly Goals Copy Share Image
“Like Hitler, like Stalin, the énarque believes that power will always prevail over economics.” — Bernard Connolly Economics Copy Share Image
“As one highly placed énarque has recently put it: ‘Of course we want monetary union. Ninety per cent of the élite want… — Bernard Connolly Copy Share Image
“While political scientists see ‘Europe’ either as a new form of political structure, having little in common with the nation-state, or as… — Bernard Connolly Cultural identity Copy Share Image
“political correctness – the suppression of rational thought” — Bernard Connolly Political correctness Copy Share Image
