THE MASKING of the Italian Non-Performing Loan (NPL) situation via dodgy accounting and false deconsolidation merits far greater profile. Italian banks are more at risk – and
IN ITS ENTHUSIASM to wage war on Brexit the EU is, for the first time in its history, decisively and determinedly sacrificing the principle of
RISHI SUNAK has been lauded generally by the media. Many ascribe him with an economic and fiscal sureness of hand which is hard to fathom.
WITH ALL EYES focused on COVID and its associated costs in lives and treasure, another much more deadly and morbid affliction threatens to sink our
TECHNOLOGICAL BREAKTHROUGHS start not with a big bang but a whimper. Our lives are busy, events are fleeting and so all too often discoveries are
IN PREVIOUS articles (see below) I have outlined the clear inefficiency of the public sector. The bang for the buck is lamentable. Don’t take my
IN PART 5 of this series I looked at inflationary risk. In this short essay I look at a further factor and perhaps underappreciated force
ON MY TRAVELS the vexed subject of inflationary risk splits professional investors more than any other subject. In one camp lies the inflation sceptics who
THIS GOVERNMENT has chosen to try and grow the economy though public sector stimulus. Largely a result of the lockdown public spending increased by a
IN THE THIRD of my mini-series examining the economic challenges facing the UK I look at ‘levelling up,’ the policy goal central to this Government’s
YESTERDAY I launched a mini-series looking at the challenges the UK economy faces. Today we start to look at some of the solutions. I outlined our
GIVEN THE SCALE of the challenges Britain faces, from the erosion of liberty and even free speech, to the threat of the possible break-up of
