Best of Alex 2018

It’s 30 years since Alex began his career in the City of London as a Yuppie banker. Today’s post-crisis financial reality comes as a grim contrast to those heady, carefree days, with all the additional uncertainties of Brexit, President Trump and a General Election. On the domestic front Alex’s wife Penny’s blossoming career as a nonexecutive director means he has the indignity of attending the World Economic Forum at Davos as her 'plus one'; his hapless colleague Clive’s divorce from fearsome wife Bridget is getting particularly messy and expensive; and consternation is caused at the bank when Alex’s colleague Steven unexpectedly comes out as a transgender woman. The star of the Daily Telegraph’s business pages divides his time between worrying about his job being relocated to Frankfurt post-Brexit, fretting over the arrival of the draconian new compliance regime Mifid II, which will make half the City redundant, and remaining blissfuly ignorant about BlockChain - which will do the same for anyone who’s left. The Best of Alex is now in full colour.

Au trecut 30 de ani de cand Alex si-a inceput cariera in orasul Londra ca bancher Yuppie. Realitatea financiara de dupa criza de astazi vine ca un contrast sumbru cu acele zile capace, fara griji, cu toate incertitudinile suplimentare ale Brexitului, ale presedintelui Trump si ale alegerilor generale.