Our high streets are suffering – and it can only get worse from here

Britain's high streets are taking a hammering, says Matthew Lynn. For investors, that's a worrying sign of things to come.

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French Connection: a shocking performance

A crash in China. The Fed finally getting around to raising interest rates. An emerging markets collapse, or the ongoing rout in commodity prices triggering a wave of corporate, or even sovereign, defaults. They are all potential hazards up ahead for the markets. But in fact, the City has something far closer to home to worry about. Another collapse in the retailing industry.

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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.