Modern Monetary Theory – or alchemy?
* For centuries governments have taxed, borrowed or created money to pay for pub…
* To outsiders the British can seem slightly obsessed with house prices. Yet it…
Jobs and work, how the UK compares
* Last week saw UK unemployment fall to the lowest level since 1974. Against a b…
If life is getting worse then why are we so happy?
* Last year I was asked to give a presentation on the challenges facing Western…
* Today’s Briefing looks at the state of global activity one-third the way throu…
Human capital, where the UK stands
* Most conversations about the UK’s poor productivity record eventually turn to…
Who’s afraid of the yield curve?
* There’s no doubt that growth in the West is slowing. The question is whether t…
* China’s economic transformation in the last four decades is one of the great e…