The radical new Dutch government is the canary in the EU coal mine
Electric car subsidies will be scrapped, while heat pumps will no longer be mandatory. “Red diesel” will be brought back...
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Unrepentant Bank of England refuses to learn from its failures
Yet if it had so little impact, why did both Switzerland and Japan, which were subjected to the same external...
Labour will wreck the economy by living in the past
They are the kind of reforms that generate plenty of support on social media, and will please the party’s mainly...
London was never going to be a post-Brexit loser
A Goldman insider says one of the “big reasons” to go ahead with the removal of the bonus cap was...
China’s gold-buying spree could be the straw that breaks the dollar’s back
On top of this, the US may be its own worst enemy. The recent strength of the economy and markets...
The Bank should diversify its policymaking team before going out to bat
During 2020 and 2021, as inflationary dangers grew, there was “no mention of the monetary data in the Bank’s reports”,...
Milei is already proving the Left-wing economic establishment wrong
Last week, Milei announced that the country had recorded its first quarterly budget surplus since 2008, a modest 0.2pc of GDP, but...
The EU may have built Poland – but Brexit did not break Britain
If we instead take purchasing power parity as the measure, which attempts to adjust for the fact that the cost...
The net zero leviathan is crushing the UK economy
Similarly the ban on sales of new petrol and diesel cars has been delayed from 2030 to 2035.Even so, the...
Britain doesn’t make enough. We need to reindustrialise to compete
After the turbulence of a global pandemic, war in Europe, trouble in the Middle East – and an aborted experiment...
