By Catherine McBride – 7 minute read UK TRADE has taken quite a beating from the anti-Brexit brigade since the release of some 2021 trade figures almost a year ago. Now that the full set of 2022 trade figures have been made available we can see that not only were their conclusions premature, they were [...]
By Bob Lyddon – 4 minutes read The UK's Central Bank Digital Currency project demonstrates Bank of England independence – from us and our political representatives Introduction RISHI SUNAK and Jeremy Hunt have brought about the complete independence of the Bank of England – more than under Gordon Brown's actions when he became Chancellor. The [...]
By Ewen Stewart – 7 minute read BRITAIN SHOULD BE BOOMING. Our economy is structurally biased to globally growing industries from financial and professional services to elite education, from media and cultural assets to racing cars, from bio and medical technology to logistics, from niche engineering to tourism. These are all industries growing more rapidly [...]
By Bob Lyddon – 4 minute read THE BANK of England’s project – or is it Rishi Sunak’s? – to create a UK-cryptocurrency called Britcoin is controlled by the digital payment industry. True to form it promises to impose on the UK yet more failed tools and techniques from the EU: not surprising since the project committees [...]
By Ewen Stewart – 6 minute read MUCH HAS BEEN WRITTEN about the Budget. Justifiably almost none of it good. It would be easy to pick fault with the poor record of the Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) in modelling the UK economy, but LSE Professor and OBR member David Miles does a good job of explaining why [...]
