Well a consensus seems to have been reached that some at least of the bombers were ’suicides’ (the probability seems to be that they all were). So what do we know about suicide bombing? Well reading around I came across this document from the Rand Corporation which contains a chapter from terrorism specialist Bruce Hoffman [...]

The danger that Italy could be the next country to be attacked is certainly being taken very seriously there. Corriera della Sera leads with “Blitz antiterrorismo in tutta Italia” (which I imagine I don’t need to translate). For english language readers AFP are carrying this story:
Italian police were carrying out a country-wide anti-terrorism operation early [...]

Bloomberg (didn’t I once promise not to have anything more to do with them, oh well, needs must) have obtained a copy of German Finance Minister Hans Eichel’s budget plans for 2006. The problem is a serious one since the big problems are structural not cyclical:
“Given the availability of financial resources, an adequate public infrastructure [...]

Bloombergs Mathew Lynn on why we need a rate cut regardless of fluctuations in the value of the euro. (Also see the Liquidity Trap post on Afoe yesterday, I, like Lynn, don’t agree we have reached the point where monetary policy is useless, at least not yet we haven’t).
“The ECB appears to have little comprehension [...]

I don’t know how many of you have seen the film The Insider, but Caesar Alierta, boss of Spain’s telecommunications near-monopoly Telefonica, has always seemed to me to fit the bill perfectly. Now the Financial Times announce that he is finally to be charged with an old insider-trading scandal:
“C?sar Alierta, executive chairman of Telef?nica, the [...]

AFP
The investigation quite early led us to have concerns about the movement and activities of four men, three of whom came from the West Yorkshire area,” said the head of the Metropolitan Police anti-terrorist squad, Peter Clarke.
“We are trying to establish their movements in the run-up to last week’s attack and specifically to establish whether [...]

Sky continue to maintain their original claim that there were four bombers, and that they are all dead. This has not had direct police confirmation. But sky do provide a lot more details. One of the most important of these is that images of the four were captured by CCTV cameras at [...]

Morgan Stanley team members Steven Jen and Eric Chaney (joined by Takehiro Sato and David Miles) debate today the interesting question of whether the eurozone economies have entered a liquidity trap (LT). Those who have no idea what one of these would look like could do worse than read Paul Krugman’s classic article on the [...]

Sky is now reporting that all four bombers who attacked trains and a bus in London on Thursday died in the attacks, and that all four were British citizens. (This also implies that we now know there were 4 of them).
The Times has this in its article:
And a 21-year-old local man, speaking at the scene [...]

David posted last Friday about fears and fear. News has come in this afternoon that a Pakistani man - Kamal Raza Butt - was killed on Sunday in Nottingham. The crime - for which six youths are now in custody - was clearly not (in strict legal terms) directly related to the bombings (since there [...]