Housing policy
The UK housing market is “broken”. Even the government agrees on that. But who broke it? And how t...
Business is not politics
After the failed popular uprising in East Germany in 1953, Bertolt Brecht wrote sardonically
.... the peopleHad forfeited the...
Manufacturing Fetishism
Donald Trump will bring millions of manufacturing jobs to the US, and make Ohio – a key swing stat...
Pension Funding
Yet another way we are cheating our grandchildren.
Long term real interest rates are negative i...
Modern business, modern markets
Stock markets of the kind we recognise today owe their existence to the development of railways in the nineteenth century. Railwa...
Other People’s Money
What do the people who occupy the skyscrapers of the City of London and Canary Wharf actually do?’...
Financial Regulation That Might Have a Chance of Working
Regulation of financial services has been an unmitigated policy disaster. Ed Kane has already described the demand for more regulation ...
The Future of Capitalism
Tonight, I would like to bury, not capitalism, as the Soviet leader Khrushchev foolishly claimed h...
The Size of States – an Economic Analysis
The union of parliaments between Scotland and England took place in 1707. The triggering eve...
The need for structural reform in banking
Financial World
There are three principal groups of argument for structural reform in the finan...