Gordon Brown to take over at RBS – and five more predictions for 2015

Will deflation spread to Britain, and could Gordon Brown turn around RBS? Matthew Lynn sets out his six predictions for the year ahead.

Shortly beforethe 1929 crash,US economist Irving Fisher opined that"stock priceshave reachedwhat looks likea permanently high plateau". With that caveat in mind, here are a few things that might happen in 2015.

Rupert Murdoch sells The Times: With Rupert Murdoch hurtling through his 80s, and no sign of the long-term decline in newspapers ever ending, there is not much cachet in owning The Times or The Sunday Times anymore. But it was also very difficult to sell out while they were losing money faster than a San Francisco start-up.

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Matthew Lynn

Matthew Lynn is a columnist for Bloomberg, and writes weekly commentary syndicated in papers such as the Daily Telegraph, Die Welt, the Sydney Morning Herald, the South China Morning Post and the Miami Herald. He is also an associate editor of Spectator Business, and a regular contributor to The Spectator. Before that, he worked for the business section of the Sunday Times for ten years. 

He has written books on finance and financial topics, including Bust: Greece, The Euro and The Sovereign Debt Crisis and The Long Depression: The Slump of 2008 to 2031. Matthew is also the author of the Death Force series of military thrillers and the founder of Lume Books, an independent publisher.