The latest from Make Wealth History

• The five stages of decline
  I came across this today, the five stages of decline, as expounded by business author Jim Collins in his book How the Mighty Fall. He’s writing about corporations, but I reckon you can read the whole of the modern consumerist/economic liberalism project into this graph. Thatcher and Reagan deliver stage one, the boom of the 90s [...]
• Metro: London’s new and better bank
  New banks are quite common in many parts of the world, but there hasn’t been a new bank on a British high street for decades. That’s about to change, with London’s Metro bank due to open to customers this week. With many large banks closing branches to cut costs, a stubborn tradition of closing early, [...]
• Climate scepticism – a turning tide or a post-Copenhagen anti-climax?
  Last week I posted the results a poll from the States that showed how the number of people who are sceptical about climate science is on the rise. The BBC have carried out a similar survey in the UK, and found similar results: That’s a pretty stunning change in opinion since November, the result of a [...]