Britain is in decline. Only tough love can save us
The New Yorker magazine, beloved of smug Left-wing sophisticates on both sides of the Atlantic, recently ran a piece on...
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Pensioners are the hardest hit in zero-growth Britain
Here’s the problem, however. Pensioners are suffering more than any other single group.Analysis by the Resolution Foundation this week found...
Our economic model is bust. Being a services superpower is not enough
You can’t buck the market, Margaret Thatcher liked to say, and she was right. You can’t buck the market, you...
Germany’s moribund economy faces years of stagnation
This needs to be reduced not by weakening exports but rather by stronger growth in consumer spending. Yet German consumers...
The weakened West stands no chance against resurgent Russia
A new form of debt is not going to fix that. There are two big problems. First, a new Cold...
The Bank of England’s sinister role in pushing Britain into effective bankruptcy
In 1997, after the election of the Labour government under Tony Blair’s leadership, Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown committed...
Federal Reserve faces ‘horrible choice’, warns Great Recession prophet
Mr Connolly said the next step will be highly political. Fed officials are alarmed by the prospect of a second...
Britain is about to suffer a massive collision with reality
I wrote on Saturday about the political paralysis that surrounds any serious attempt to tackle the UK’s multiple economic weaknesses,...
Britain is mortgaging its future to prop up the present
As you might guess, there is no silver bullet, no one-size-fits-all approach to economic transformation. But there are perhaps two...
Scrap the OBR, end the Bank’s independence, and free Britain to thrive
The origins of the Bank’s “independence” are, in fact, political, not economic. This “independence” was granted in 1997; done in...
