Friday Links: Endless moral decline (?), VC turmoil in Europe, Cannabis and schizophrenia, austerity and Russian nuclear stranglehold

Programming note : there will be no Investment Ideas next Wednesday and the week after (w/c 3rd July) we're off again for a week. Sunny Belfast beckons.

Moral decline

As a self-declared contrarian, I’m always careful of historical generalizations molded around personal viewpoints. Take my son for instance who complains that his generation has it so much harder: I concede some of his points on London rents but tend to be suspicious of his argument that current graduates find it much harder to score a firs…