‘PIGS’ Crisis Is Opportunity for Euro to Stand Up: Matthew Lynn “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” Rahm Emanuel, U.S. President Barack Obama’s chief of staff, said during the 2008 credit crunch. “It’s an opportunity to do things that you could not do before.”

Swap Bonds, Short Stocks for Greek Trading Riches: Matthew Lynn The markets are in a funk about the public-debt crisis in Greece. The country was clearly not ready for euro membership and now faces some hard choices: make savage budget cuts and plunge into a deep recession; default on its debts and lose its credit rating for a generation; plead for a bailout from its European Union partners; or quit the euro.

Wall Strasse Beats Wall Street on Obama Bank Bill: Matthew Lynn U.S. President Barack Obama has taken a sledgehammer to the model that Wall Street investment banks have created over the last three decades.

Cadbury Bids Leave Investors With Cash to Burn: Matthew Lynn It takes a lot for the British to discover a sense of economic patriotism. Selling carmakers Jaguar and Land Rover to an Indian company was fine. Handing over Heathrow Airport to a Spanish firm didn’t ruffle too many feathers, either. But losing Cadbury Plc, which makes the Wispa bar and the Creme Egg, to the U.S.? That is a nibble too far.

Matthew Lynn Says Retail Banking Needs More Competition: Video Bloomberg columnist Matthew Lynn talks with Rishaad Salamat about opportunities for new players in U.K. retail banking.(Source: Bloomberg)

Banks Have More Bite When They’re Allowed to Bark: Matthew Lynn Sherlock Holmes once solved a mystery by concentrating on “the dog that didn’t bark.” In the story “Silver Blaze,” the detective’s point was that sometimes it is more useful to look at what isn’t happening than what is.

Tiger Woods’s Sponsors Should Forgive and Forget: Matthew Lynn There are few sights as ridiculous as a big corporation wrestling with a moral dilemma. In the weeks since golfer Tiger Woods was embroiled in a marital-infidelity scandal, his sponsors have been hitting him into the rough.

Next Decade Will Be Good One for Stock Investors: Matthew Lynn Even the most practiced soothsayer will struggle to make any detailed predictions for the next 10 years. It’s hard enough to know what will happen in the markets in January 2010, never mind December 2019.

Matthew Lynn Says 2010 May See Tax Cuts to Boost Economy: Video Bloomberg columnist Matthew Lynn talks with Rishaad Salamat about the prospects for 2010 including tax cuts, an Irish economic recovery and austerity measures in the U.K.

Eight Things for Markets to Watch Out for in 2010: Matthew Lynn No one can complain that the last two years have been light on drama. We had the worst financial crash in living memory, and some of the biggest banks in the world effectively came under state control.