There are still reasons to be optimistic on Britain’s economy
The second bit of good news concerns the Labour Party. In an interview with this newspaper, the shadow chancellor, Rachel...
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The Bank should focus on inflation
T he former governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, has told this paper that the Bank’s focus on net...
The EU is running out of other people’s money
There was the €750 billion-plus Coronavirus Recovery Fund, designed to help member states bounce back from the pandemic. There is...
Industry voice: Govt must back DB schemes to benefit from investment capabilities – DB & Derisking
I once asked my actuary exactly how long our actuarial valuation span was, and he replied: “Until everybody’s dead.” Another...
Good riddance to Chinese triumphalism as economic disaster looms
Yet the tables soon turned, and in the event, closing down the economy to fight Covid has proved just as...
A trade deal with India would destroy any case for rejoining the EU
Finally, and perhaps most significantly, are the geopolitical ramifications. A UK-India pact will help steer India towards the Western trading...
Deluded Europe can’t see that it’s finished
More acutely, Europeans will fight over the question of immigration. The experts are very clear in their assessment: given the...
The Brics currency ignores all the traumatic lessons of the half-baked euro
“I ask myself every night why all countries have to base their trade on the dollar,” says Brazil’s Lula da...
Fasten your seatbelts – the global economy is heading for turbulence
How markets will cope with this is unclear. It has already prompted the question of what constitutes a risk-free asset?...
Starmer’s flip-flopping shows Labour has no plan for the economy
With every week that passes, Sir Keir Starmer appears more and more determined to make the flip-flopper label stick. We might...
