The Great Debate UK
2010: Another year, another crisis
- Laurence Copeland is a professor of finance at Cardiff University Business School and a co-author of “Verdict on the Crash” published by the Institute of Economic Affairs. The opinions expressed are his own. -
If the financial crisis were a theatre production of Hamlet, we would now be at the end of Act III.
But look . . . the audience is already standing up, applauding wildly and putting on their coats. They obviously think it’s all over. Little do they know how much blood remains to be spilled . . .
Look at the facts.
The FTSE is up by nearly 50 percent since March, so that it is now more or less back to where it started 2006. The same is true of gilts, corporate debt, and more or less every other financial asset on both sides of the Atlantic and across the globe. Even the housing market, where it all began, seems to be reviving.
