Economist, Visiting Professor, Lecturer, Writer, Public Speaker.
As 2018 draws to a close, we reflect on a year that’s marked 10 years since the financial crisis and consider the impact of the policies taken to deal with the crisis on the UK’s economic position a decade later. More than 10 years on from the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the success of the …
Continue reading “Are we still paying the price for the financial crisis?”
Events this week and, no doubt, for the next few weeks and months, will decide the economic and political future of the UK – and of each and every one of us who live here. Whether you voted to leave or remain, the fact is that we are now in a hugely damaging situation, with …
Continue reading “Brexit – why it’s time to give a little love”
Based on the post-war record of UK economic expansion, we may be about to experience a sharp slowdown (see chart A). Latest figures show that the UK grew by 0.4% in the final quarter of 2017, down by 0.1% from an earlier estimate of 0.5%. In the year as a whole, the UK economy expanded …