Economist, Visiting Professor, Lecturer, Writer, Public Speaker.
As I discussed last week, global economic growth is at risk from the US government’s imposition of tariffs on trade with China. But the focus on physical trade in goods is also missing an important point: the future, and the present, for some countries, is more about data flows than physical products. Unlocking the benefits …
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One of the significant risks to global growth this year just got bigger. Last week, the US increased tariffs by 25% on $325bn worth of Chinese goods. But, in reality, it’s a tax on US consumers who have to pay it to the US government, and will therefore slow economic growth in the US. By …
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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 …
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