Thomas Cowen
Thomas Cowen is a former intern at the CPS
Written by Thomas Cowen Monday, 01 March 2010 16:58
Having read Harriet Sergeant's opinion piece in The Sunday Times last weekend it made me ponder about my own experiences in the job market.
It seems that much of the blame for the mismatch between graduates and graduate jobs available is placed on the graduates themselves - Harriet's piece provides plenty of anecdotal evidence for this: complaints that recent graduates expect to leave at 5.30, of the inability to spell...
Read more: The graduate job market- reflections from the front line
Written by Thomas Cowen Friday, 15 January 2010 15:06
Economics is essentially the art of trade-off and in terms of the future of fiscal policy, one of the key factors at the next election is deciding which economic risk we are more concerned about: Britain's credibility as a sovereign debtor or the risk of withdrawing the stimulus too soon and as a result suffering another downturn.
Last night, at the LSE, George Osborne reemphasized the Conservative position: namely that the...
Written by Thomas Cowen Friday, 18 December 2009 16:43
Much has been said about the Pre-Budget Report, most of it lamenting the fact that it did nothing to shore up Britain's fiscal credibility. It did though contain some new policies which deserve scrutiny, specifically the proposal to set up a 'Capital Growth Fund'(CGF) to provide access to capital for Small and Medium sized businesses (SMEs) looking to raise between £2m- £10m where, according to the Rowland report a...
Written by Thomas Cowen Monday, 23 November 2009 12:18
"Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonourably; the man who respects it has earned it." (Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged).
There has been much ado recently about financial remuneration and Gordon Brown has hopped on the bandwagon by announcing in the Financial Services Bill, outlined in last week's Queen's speech, that the Government will seek to "expand the...
Written by Thomas Cowen Wednesday, 23 September 2009 09:04
It seems evident that the arguments against increasing the cost of higher education for students have been undone. Before the introduction of ‘top up fees’ we were warned that it would discourage people from going into higher education, it would limit diversity and social mobility and cause huge social strain.
The reality, however, is, that since the introduction of top up fees there has been no fall in...
Read more: "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?"
