John Vax is a principal at MT Thaler Investment Management LLP, a London-based hedge fund which focuses on credit markets
Standard and Poor’s vindicates Tea Party with downgrade of U.S. Debt.
While the Tea Party gets slated as a bunch of extremists, the truth is they're a legitimate mass movement. And they've just been proved right.
- 6 August 2011
Instant View: Greece is missing ALL its fiscal targets and we’re throwing good money after bad
The markets have already priced in a Greek default, it’s time the EU woke up to reality, says financier John Vax
- 29 May 2011
Greek default now a foregone conclusion
Greek debt now yields over 23 percent. Default is all but certain
- 27 April 2011
America's man-made fiscal disaster
Japan's excuse for spiralling debt is that it just suffered a massive earthquake. What's America's excuse?
- 18 April 2011
Euro set to rise against dollar, default for peripheral countries comes closer as ECB hikes rates
ECB rate rise signals a stronger euro versus the dollar, while the Portugal crisis may bring default closer
- 7 April 2011
Eurocrats need to go back to Plato to see eurozone's flaws
Plato's Allegory of the Cave could tell Europeans much about the futility of their approach to the euro
- 4 April 2011
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