Ryan Bourne - 10 June 2013 - Economy
There’s a saying in Westminster that “good ideas have many authors”. Well, today Policy Exchange (PX) have come out backing the RBS and Lloyds share scheme which we have been pushing since our Give Us Our Fair Shares paper back in 2011. In a good report written by James Barty, ...
John Chown - 04 June 2013 - Economy
John Chown is founder chairman of JF Chown & Company and a principal in Chown Dewhurst LLP, was educated at Gordonstoun and Selwyn College, Cambridge (First class honours economics, Adam Smith Prize and Wrenbury Scholarship) and is an Honorary Fellow, and member of the Investment Committee, of the College. He ...
Tim Knox - 04 June 2013 - Economy
Reading the headlines on Friday (31 May), it seemed that the EU’s proposals for a Financial Transactions Tax (FTT) were to be dropped. “Europe rows back on FTT plans “ announced the Daily Telegraph; “The European Union is rowing back on its plan for an 11-nation tax on financial transactions” ...
Ryan Bourne - 03 June 2013 - Economy
This article is an excerpt from our Growth Bulletin, authored by Ryan Bourne and Tim Knox. To read the full article, click here. To sign up for our mailings, use the form on the left of our newsletter page.The debate over fiscal policy has been getting personal of late. The revelation that the work of ...
Ryan Bourne - 28 May 2013 - Economy
An interview with Ed Balls by Sam Coates in the Times yesterday discussed the potential for some sort of distribution of RBS shares to the public. As regular readers of this blog will know, this is something we have advocated since 2011. A précis of our precise proposal can be ...
Ryan Bourne - 22 May 2013 - Economy
The IMF report proved a damp squib for the ‘more, more, more’ crowd who think the Chancellor should attempt to spend and borrow his way back to sustainable growth. Whilst the Fund did advocate re-jigging of spending (bringing forward some capital spending), it largely supported the need for fiscal consolidation ...
Tim Knox - 22 May 2013 - Economy
This article is an excerpt from our Growth Bulletin, authored by Ryan Bourne and Tim Knox. To read the full article, click here. To sign up for our mailings, use the form on the left of our newsletter page.It is a generally accepted fact that in the long run, what matters for prosperity ...
Ryan Bourne - 21 May 2013 - Economy
This blog might seem a bit pedantic. But at a time where financial and economic literacy has never been so important, I think it is necessary.So, remember how last year we pointed out that there was huge confusion between debt and deficit? We carried out polling which showed just 10% ...
Ryan Bourne - 14 May 2013 - Economy
HSBC’s Stephen King is rare for an economist. Not only is he able to write well (in a style that most graduates would be able to understand), but he is also an incredibly nice man. His book, ‘When the Money Runs Out’, due to be published this Saturday, is a ...
Vuk Vukovic - 25 April 2013 - Economy
This extended blog post was jointly authored by Ryan Bourne and Vuk Vokovic.Reinhart and Rogoff's (RR) highly-cited paper on how high levels of gross government debt (over 90% of GDP) are associated with much slower real GDP growth, which allegedly became the justification for austerity, has been brought under scrutiny ...
Ryan Bourne - 16 April 2013 - Economy
This article is an excerpt from our Growth Bulletin, authored by Ryan Bourne and Tim Knox. To read the full article, click here. To sign up for our mailings, use the form on the left of our newsletter page.With the sad death of Lady Thatcher, there has been much reflection on her personality, ...
Ryan Bourne - 02 April 2013 - Economy
If you want an insight into the psyche of many on the British left, then look no further than an article published in the last 24 hours.Exhibit A is Lynsey Hanley’s piece for the Guardian website. In the blog she attacks the Coalition’s policy of raising the personal allowance for ...
Michael Johnson - 29 March 2013 - Economy
Just when you thought it could not get any worse... it has. In 2011, the OBR started to forecast the cashflow shortfall between public service pensions’ contributions and pensions in payment. Six years ago this was an irrelevant £200 million, climbing to £8 billion last year. It has to ...
Ryan Bourne - 27 March 2013 - Economy
Matthew Hancock MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for further education, skills and lifelong learning, this morning gave a speech to the Resolution Foundation on low pay. Entitled, ‘A Conservative Agenda for Tackling Low Pay’, the speech was largely based around the idea that there were three mechanisms at the Government’s ...
Ryan Bourne - 26 March 2013 - Economy
“So a 17 year old has made a fortune and has now become a member of the ‘super rich’, the top 1%, and the plutocrats who are getting richer whilst we’re all getting poorer. It’s ludicrous the amount of money he has been able to earn, far beyond what I ...
