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By Ann Pettifor, Ambrose Evans Pritchard, economics editor on the Daily Telegraph, is one of the few B ritish journalists to have a grasp of scale of the threat posed by the coming first world debt crisis. On the 26th June, he reported on the latest scandal to hit the US finance sector: the Northern Rock, according to the FTs 28 June edition, ‘surprised the City yesterday by saying it had been caught out by the effect of higher funding (i.e. interest rate) costs…warning that profits would be below forecasts… ‘Adam Applegarth , chief executive said: ‘If anyone had forecast a 70 basis point increase in two-year swap |
In the September 2003 edition of openDemocracy I wrote: 
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