19th May 2024
What is the right interest rate for the U.K. economy? Economic commentary on this issue is almost entirely seen through the lens of whether…
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8th April 2024
Last week saw the end of the UK tax year. Working in financial services, I inevitably received a flurry of messages from friends asking…
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24th March 2024
The last week has seen considerable flux in the cost of money. Enthusiasm for cheaper money in the world’s largest economy, the US, helped…
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11th March 2024
Investors are beginning to ask whether a new economic dawn is breaking in the Land of the Rising Sun. Japan – for decades a…
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21st December 2023
Just over a year ago, economists and commentators were falling over themselves to predict UK inflation and interest rates hitting eyewatering levels. The US…
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11th December 2023
Writing about bonds – the IOUs issued by governments and companies – is the journalistic equivalent of a black hole. Cliched references to 007…
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30th October 2023
Back in July the Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, unveiled his plans to reform the UK’s ailing stock markets. In that mid-summer speech at…
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7th January 2022
29th December 2021 Economic crises have a nasty habit of upending UK governments. The Winter of Discontent in 1978/79, the Exchange Rate Mechanism…
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