Category: New Capital Consensus and Investment Reform

“Eye-watering”. This was the term the Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom used to describe the growing gap between senior executive and average worker compensation. The big…

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Many criticise calls for further action by competition authorities as being anti-business. In this newsletter we argue that nothing could be further from the truth….

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Now we have a new government, one of the pressing issues with which it must deal, much talked of during the election campaign, is the…

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Letter published in the Financial Times, 8 January 2020 It is hard to reconcile the push by some investment companies for chief executives to purchase…

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This blog is a belated tribute to one of the finest and most thoughtful financial titans, and probably the only one I ever met –…

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As of December 11th the WTO appellate body will cease to function following US refusal to appoint new judges. In effect, the WTO dispute resolution…

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As we enter the final weeks of the election, the latest numbers from the housing sector do not make for pretty reading. Britain’s housing market…

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NOTE: Limited seating availability. Click RSVP button for tickets Since the 2008 financial crash, monetary policy has played an outsized role in political economies around…

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For three decades, central banks promised us they would take care of the economy. Fiscal policy, we were told, was toothless. Monetary policy would ensure…

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A well-functioning financial services sector is a key part of an economy that produces goods and services that citizens need and want. Without capital to…

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The latest decision from the European Central Bank to reactivate quantitative easing to revitalise the comatose Eurozone economy has been met with scepticism — this…

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Central banks have come to dominate economic policy in all major economies. This is problematic. It raises questions about the legitimacy of central bank independence…

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