Britain’s lifeless housing market is a harbinger of permanent economic stagnation
Even so, the slight recovery in prices can reasonably be taken as evidence of a rather more resilient economy than...
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Markets are right to bet on higher for longer interest rates
This has potentially far-reaching implications for investment and asset allocation, some of which we are already seeing in markets.For instance,...
London’s Brexit loss is mainly New York’s gain
The City’s interests were almost wholly ignored during the withdrawal negotiations, which given that financial services are arguably Britain’s most...
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...
Only a brutal Darwinian process can reset Britain’s economy
The scale and speed of today’s rise in interest rates looks set to deliver precisely that. Past recessions have admittedly...
It’s time we stopped talking down the UK economy
Yet all things are relative, and looking at the sweep of major advanced economies, never mind the challenger autocracies that...
Savers have no right to complain about ‘poor’ bank interest rates
This is important not just because it offends people’s sense of fair play, and taps into a deeper narrative of...
Banks must be made to realise they are here to serve the people, not their own pockets
Yet the thing about banks in particular is that though they behave as if they were free enterprise, commercial organisations...
Don’t be fooled by inflation – Britain is hurtling towards recession
This has brought into play another abiding economic truism: that periods of excessive demand don’t just peter out and die...
Britain needs bold pension reforms – or we face more Thames Waters
This has created a void into which the “live money” of international finance has stepped, with Thames Water and many...
