The coming financial storm that governments are powerless to fight
Since the banking system went belly up in the financial crisis of 2008-10, non-bank forms of finance have ballooned, and...
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There’s a crushing consensus that Britain’s economic stagnation is now inevitable
If Britain gets lucky, it will achieve around 2pc growth – better than nothing, but still woeful compared to what’s...
ALEX BRUMMER: Don’t trash energy security
By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Updated: 16:51 EDT, 31 May 2024 ...
Banking’s latest IT failures show customers are being taken for fools
It’s the message that every bank customer dreads when they try to log on to internet banking: “We’re sorry, some...
What happens when a Labour Britain meets a semi-fascist Europe?
Britain’s political centre has, by contrast, returned to rude good health. One mild-mannered gentleman will hand over power to another...
Labour’s new business backers should be careful what they wish for
Similar shortsightedness has instructed the taxation of North Sea oil and gas, where what began as a windfall tax has...
Britain’s reality check threatens to be nasty, brutish and far from short
Instead, both Conservatives and Labour hug a suffocating consensus on tax and spend that substantially ignores the deep structural reforms...
Neither party has a plan to escape stagnation, and neither has my vote
Economic growth smashed consensus by coming in at 0.6pc in the first quarter. The early evidence is that April and...
Exploitation and immigration fraud is fuelling Britain’s black economy
If we discovered a business leader had amassed their fortune not only by making a tidy profit on the goods...
Britain’s banks should take part in Macron’s grand restructuring of European finance
Combining the expertise and the networks of the two banks might well create a genuine global competitor to the American...
