Buckles

A popular commentator on the global economy, Roger regularly features on TV networks such as Bloomberg, CNBC, Fox News and CNN. Educated at Keele University and then University College London, he worked for twenty years for Hoare Govett (at the time, London’s premier “Investment Bank”). He started as a research economist and ended as a member of the main board.

A non-executive director of a small number of investment companies, Roger is a specialist consultant to a wide variety of fund managers. Roger has also become an independent member of the Snowdonia Investment Committee.

Roger will regularly feature on our website with his views and comments on the global economy.

Roger's most recent Investment Commentary -

30th July 2010 - Advertising a bank’s service is the alternative to improving it.

23rd July 2010 - Monetary failure should reinvigorate us; inspiring redoubled activity, not depression.

16th July 2010 - Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach.

9th July 2010 - Public Relations is the process that transforms the partially true into the wholly false.

2nd July 2010 - If done, ’twere well it were done quickly.

18th June 2010 - Where Law ends, Tyranny begins.

11th June 2010 - The extremes of Farce and Tragedy have much in common.

4th June 2010 - Bureaucracy defends the status quo long after the quo has lost its status.

28th May 2010 - The State doesn’t just do big things badly; it messes up small ones as well!

21st May 2010 - Most people claiming to be reformers aren’t.

14th May 2010 - In politics, as in high finance, duplicity is regarded as a virtue.

6th May 2010 - Some things are so blindingly obvious, that it’s hardly worth the bother of forecasting them.

30th April 2010 - The task now is not to fix the blame for the past, but to set the course for the future.

23rd April 2010 - All creatures are created equal, but some, regulators, for instance, more equal than others.

16th April 2010 - If a patient has a fractured leg and a sore throat, the doctor should treat the former before the latter.

9th April 2010 - Judge a tree by its fruit, not by its leaves.

2nd April 2010 - little madness in the Spring is wholesome even for the King.

26th March 2010 - Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
19th March 2010 - Infamy! Infamy! The hedge funds have got it in for me!

12th March 2010 - Don't let the politicians drive you crazy, especially when you know it's in walking distance

26th February 2010 - Most Governments are organised hypocrisies; the ideas of the head at odds with the sensations of the tail.

19th February 2010 - Our liberties are more threatened by Banking Institutions, than Standing Armies

12th February 2010 - Do the right thing: it will gratify some and astonish others

29th January 2010 - War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace

22nd January 2010 - "To deal logically with bankers, we ought to start from scratch. But where is scratch?"

14th December 2009 - "A Constitution needs both Sail and Anchor"