By Catherine McBride – 3 minute read THERE ARE lots of points in the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement that need to be addressed, but this one requires serious debate: why does the chancellor regard returns on capital as ‘unearned income’? This seems to be a very strange British sentiment from the dark ages of pre-Thatcher Britain. Should [...]
By Ewen Stewart – 7 minute read WE FACE A CRISIS born out of serial material errors over many years and short-term fixes designed to kick the can down the road. Today’s Autumn Statement compounds the error. It not only raises taxes to an unprecedented peace time level but it fails utterly to address the [...]
By Catherine McBride – 4 minute read AS MUCH AS I don’t want to give George Eustice’s comments about the Australian trade deal any more publicity, he did seem to be looking at the deal from a very narrow perspective – his own perhaps? On the question of whether Eustice was lying to the House [...]
By Catherine McBride – 6 minute read IT HAS BEEN amusing to watch Jonathan Portes, Professor of Economics, Kings College London, hammering Mark Carney, now head of ESG investing at Brookfield Asset Management, for his inaccurate remark made during a Financial Times (FT) interview comparing UK and German GDPs since 2016. It was disingenuous for theformer Governor of the Bank of [...]
By Catherine McBride – 4 minute read IT WOULD APPEAR that everything is being blamed on Liz Truss. According to The Independent “There is little prospect of a post-Brexit trade deal with Brazil in the near future because of strained relations between Britain’s Conservative Government and the new administration of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.” But read a bit further [...]
