By: Helen Thomas

CEO & Founder - Blonde Money Helen Thomas CEO and Richard Brownlees COO set up BlondeMoney almost a decade ago to bring together the worlds of Westminster and Wall Street.

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Trump’s Liberation Day has delivered what he loves most: Phone calls

April 4, 2025

Like all businessmen, Trump loves being on the phone. Liberation Day was a grab for attention, and boy did it deliver, writes Helen Thomas.
Rachel Reeves – “Gilty” as charged

January 16, 2025

The verdict is in. The Gilt market has found the Chancellor Rachel Reeves guilty of reckless endangerment of the country’s finances. A large electoral majority led her to think the world would happily finance what she described in her Mais Lecture as the “smart and strategic state”. Sticking to fiscal rules is for nought if [...]
Rachel Reeves needs to be able to sell her borrowing to the market

October 29, 2024

The first female Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, fears following in the footsteps of the last female Prime Minister in her Autumn Budget statement. The Gilt market sell-off in the wake of the Truss/Kwarteng fiscal event two years ago didn’t just cast a huge shadow over the Conservative Party; it reminded all politicians that financial markets can [...]

Value of UK deals rockets as buyers pounce on FTSE 100 firms

RFU left waiting on Twickenham gig planning meeting after NIMBY opposition

Open House Festival: The best guided walks in the Square Mile

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