Margareta Pagano

London

Business Journalist and Contributor at Freelance

Executive Editor at Reaction

Host at The Reaction Podcast

Editor, Reaction. Daily Mail City columnist.

Articles

Trump will roll back diversity targets. The UK must follow suit

Jan 18, 2025 | thetimes.com | Margareta Pagano
Harris is raking in the donor dollars but money can't buy you elections

Oct 24, 2024 | reaction.life | Maggie Pagano |Margareta Pagano

All the big donor money may be flying into Kamala Harris’ campaign to become the next president of the United States, but the seriously big betting money is now piling up behind Donald Trump. With 12 days to go until one of the most thrilling elections in history, Harris is creaming it in terms of donations. The latest billionaire to back the Democrat candidate is Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder, who is said to have just given $50 million to the Harris coffers.
Will Reeves's Halloween Budget spook the markets?

Oct 10, 2024 | reaction.life | Maggie Pagano |Margareta Pagano

Déjà vu? Around this time two years ago, a couple of days after Liz Truss’s mini-budget, the UK’s gilts markets were going haywire with yields soaring, driving up the government’s cost of borrowing to highs not seen for years. The markets were in such mayhem that Truss summoned Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng back from Washington, chopped off his head, replaced him with Jeremy Hunt, who then reversed all her tax cuts and proceeded to chop off her head. The rest, as we all like to say, is history.
Reeves would be mad to take aim at AIM

Oct 4, 2024 | reaction.life | Maggie Pagano |Margareta Pagano

Britain’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM) is struggling. The number of new companies listing on the London Stock Exchange’s junior growth market has fallen to its lowest level since the Great Financial Crash of 2008. Only £88.6 million was raised through new IPOs last year compared to £8.8 billion during AIM’s peak year of 2006, just ahead of the crash. How extraordinary. We know times are tough – and risk has become something of a no-go area for even the bravest of investors.
Britain's spirit needs lifting not taxing

Sep 26, 2024 | reaction.life | Maggie Pagano |Margareta Pagano

If you had been strolling around Times Square in New York earlier this week, you might have spotted a crowd of young men and women laughing with joy below the Nasdaq Tower skyscraper. Above them on the huge neon billboards flashed the news that Notpla has secured $25 million in its latest Series A funding.
Bank of England misses a trick by holding interest rates

Sep 19, 2024 | reaction.life | Maggie Pagano |Margareta Pagano

Hurray for Swati Dhingra. Even though she would have guessed her fellow members of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee were in a hawkish mood, she still had the guts to go against the groupthink and vote for a cut at today’s meeting. And the associate professor at the London School of Economics has been doing so all year, voting at every meeting of the nine-member MPC to cut interest rates because she says that at this level they are damaging consumption and economic growth.
Draghi has diagnosed Europe's problems but lacks suitable remedies

Sep 12, 2024 | reaction.life | Maggie Pagano |Margareta Pagano

Once again, Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s Prime Minister, nails it in one. At a meeting of world leaders at the weekend to discuss geopolitical affairs, Meloni was quoted as saying: “America innovates, China replicates, Europe regulates.” Meloni went on: “It is an extraordinary picture of our situation, because it’s true. We were a big weight in the world but that is no longer the case.” Sadly, that’s true too. Europe is stagnating, and has been in decline for two decades or more.
Ford slams brake on diversity

Aug 30, 2024 | msn.com | Margareta Pagano

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MAGGIE PAGANO: Ford slams brake on diversity

Aug 30, 2024 | thisismoney.co.uk | Margareta Pagano

Listen carefully and you will catch the screeching of brakes being slammed on the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion movement – otherwise known as DEI – across corporate America. The latest company to put the skids on DEI is the Ford Motor company. Earlier this week, the US car maker told employees that after taking a 'fresh look' at its DEI policies over the last year, it had decided to pull the plug on most of them.
True cost of Kamala-nomics: US vice president's bonkers tax plan will cripple growth, says MAGGIE PAGANO

Aug 29, 2024 | thisismoney.co.uk | Margareta Pagano

If you think Sir Keir Starmer’s warning of higher taxes to come is scary, then take a look at what America’s ‘Queen of Brat’ – vice-president Kamala Harris – is planning should she win the US election. While the Democratic nominee has been policy-light on most issues, she has confirmed that she backs most of the $5trillion (£3.8trillion) in tax rises included in President Joe Biden’s budget proposal for 2025, plus a few of her own thrown into the mix.