Martin Vander Weyer Martin Vander Weyer

What to expect in business in 2015 (probably not the Triumph of Probity, Honour and Prudence)

Plus: Companies who get the basics right, and the notable business obituaries of 2014

issue 03 January 2015

You might recall a column I once wrote about a party at the Wallace Collection. It took place in late 2008, the host was the US investment bank Morgan Stanley, and I compared the assembled financiers — who saw the crisis then raging as just one more opportunity to make money out of volatility in markets that were bound to swing round again — to the circle of dancers in Poussin’s ‘Dance to the Music of Time’, which hangs in the Great Gallery there.

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