Regular readers will know how we feel about the UK government’s increasingly desperate attempts to prop up house prices in order to keep our banks looking vaguely solvent. They will also know how we feel …
There’s a good seminar on tonight at the Economic Research Council on the future of UK property. Our own James Ferguson is speaking, as is James Wyatt of JD Wood & Co (one of the …
What will be the most interesting result of Japan’s impressive entry into the currency wars? It might be another Asian crisis; it might be a hyperinflation; it might be that Japan regains its position as …
I’ve written before about the popularity of stock buybacks and what a generally rubbish idea they are. Sadly, things are getting worse. In the US so far this year there have been $320bn worth of …
There’s was encouraging little article in the Telegraph recently by Rachel Bridge on the slow return of some manufacturing to the UK. We learn that Robb Knight of Ecoegg has shifted all his production home, …
I presented what they call an ‘authored piece’ for the BBC this week (it’s on UK growth and you can listen to it at 10:00 on Thursday on Radio 4). Part of it involved going …