It is hard to start this commentary anywhere other than North Korea – or maybe crouching in Japan as a North Korean missile passes overhead.
July saw Janet Yellen, Chair of the US Federal Reserve, announce that there would be no more financial crises “in our lifetime”.
From a General Election and Brexit negotiations to Trump pulling out of the Paris climate change agreement. June was a busy month.
We wrote last year, ‘It is tempting to think that Brexit is the only game in town.’ Cross out ‘Brexit’ and replace it with ‘General Election’.
In the UK, Theresa May has summoned everyone to the polls on 8th June. In the French Presidential election will be a fight between Emmanuel Macron and Marine le Pen. And in North Korea tensions between Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump threaten peace and stability.
It’s tempting to think that Brexit is the only story worth reporting: in fact, there was plenty happening in March.
February saw the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement come into force and the economic initiatives from the new President welcomed on Wall Street.
It’s hard to find any news with a neutral view of ‘the Donald’. We’ll do our best to stick to the facts and let you form your own opinion.
At the start of 2016, Brexit was seen as unlikely and President Trump was seen as impossible.
Recent figures have revealed that the UK has fallen out of the top 10 of a list of countries with the best pension systems in the world.