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Vincent Boland: This time, Scotland will vote on leaving a very different UK

Eight years on from the last Scottish independence referendum, British politics is dominated by a strident English nationalism which voted to leave Europe

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Vincent Boland: Why the crypto crash was a calamity waiting to happen

Hyped and marketed to a ridiculous extent by its backers, the $2.5 trillion virtual ‘currency’ segment of the market was always going to collide head-on with reality. The question is: what happens next?

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Vincent Boland: Big Mac peace theory bites the dust as more countries lose appetite for free trade

Once an article of faith for the great capitalist nations, free trade is becoming increasingly unpopular as countries turn to protectionism, something that will make us all poorer in the long run

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Vincent Boland: ESG movement imploding after falling into the trap of believing its own publicity

The probe into German asset manager DWS has revealed a fatal flaw in the much-lauded concept of ethical investment: no one agrees on what it actually means

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Vincent Boland: Glencore’s shaming lifts the lid on the murky business of commodity trading

The metals and energy trading giant is finally facing a reckoning after decades of alleged dubious business practices. Other Big Commodities should face similar scrutiny

Vincent Boland: Time to take a stand against crypto buffoonery

Central Banks across the world should heed of a group of academics and tech industry veterans who have appealed for lawmakers not to be seduced by the oceans of hype that envelop the crypto world

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Vincent Boland: After 40 years of freakish growth, China’s economy is at a crossroads

Recent actions by Xi Jinping’s government, including its strict Covid lockdown in Shanghai, have sowed doubt about the sustainability of the ‘party-state capitalism’ model

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Vincent Boland: A €16bn valuation gap is enough to give anyone the Twitter jitters

Elon Musk is now wriggling to escape a trap of his own making in his pursuit of the social media platform, but whatever the outcome, Musk owns this debacle

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Vincent Boland: Today’s tech rout is a big deal but it’s nothing like the 2000 bust

Technology stocks around the world are tumbling, but the damage doesn’t compare to the great dotcom disaster of 22 years ago – at least not yet

Vincent Boland: A new decade of austerity is looming and we are woefully unprepared for it

Globalisation is in retreat, the tech revolution is slowing down and public debt is rising

Vincent Boland: Fall of Archegos could change how the stock market is played

The collapse of the hedge fund, which built a $36 billion house of cards, may be one catalyst among many for the most sweeping reforms of the stock market in decades

Vincent Boland: Berlin is the weak link in the West’s attempt to halt Putin’s war

Europe’s largest economy relies on Russian gas to fuel its industries and heat its homes. Severing that link will be hard for hesitant German leader Olaf Scholz, but time is running out for Ukraine

Vincent Boland: For all its faults, the modern, democratic, capitalist, globalised world in which we live is worth defending, and fighting for

Doing business is becoming ever more political as the right turns on its corporate base

Vincent Boland: ‘Z’ is for the zombie state that Putin has built on lies and paranoia

The first victims of Putin’s futile war are the people of Ukraine, but it is also a catastrophe for the Russian people who face long, dark years ahead

Vincent Boland: Is China edging towards a cautious embrace of the free market?

Developments in Beijing suggest that Xi Jinping’s administration is trying to engineer the economy’s reorientation from one development model to another without derailing it entirely

Vincent Boland: China won’t want to be on Putin’s losing team

The Russian president is starting to see his own oppressed citizens flee the country or oppose him, and his strongest potential ally begin to distance itself

Vincent Boland: South Korea? Nice economy and culture, shame about the politics

We can’t get enough of its smartphones, movies and K-pop, but corruption is rife in the Asian country and its new president is unlikely to change the status quo

Vincent Boland: Corporate retreat from Russia heralds return of forgotten business risk – geopolitics

The oil and finance decoupling from Russia following the invasion of Ukraine is without precedent. Once the dust settles, the entire geopolitical landscape may be unrecognisable

Vincent Boland: More twists and turns ahead as VW tries to steer a way into the future

The car maker’s plans to generate capital for an electric revolution through the sale of Porsche may backfire due to the dominance of its three biggest shareholders

Vincent Boland: Putin’s brinkmanship is leading to the very opposite of what he wants

The Russian president’s posturing on Ukraine betrays all the signs of an isolated leader becoming detached from reality