York Big Ideas Festival report 2 (ECONOMIC AND PHYSICAL REGENERATION (in partnership with Aviva)). View the other York Big Ideas Festival reports HERE. Chair: Jonathan Cowap, formerly BBC…
York Big Ideas Festival report 2 (ECONOMIC AND PHYSICAL REGENERATION (in partnership with Aviva)). View the other York Big Ideas Festival reports HERE. Chair: Jonathan Cowap, formerly BBC…
“You’ll own nothing and be happy’? David Webb has gone through the 50-year history of all the legal constructs that have been put in place…
“Brevity is the soul of wit.“William Shakespeare From the top down: The future looks dire. Soaring unemployment, increasing energy prices and food poverty all seem…
All societies experience threats to their continued well-being, In recent years, we have had the 2008 financial crash, Covid 19 and, of course, global warming….
“Those who propose replacing the top-down with the bottom-up may have a valid case.”Tim Morgan, in his Surplus Energy Economics blog We can’t imagine the…
I have been an investment banker for well over 40 years, working in the citadel of finance – the capital markets of London. I have…
Our chart for this month looks at Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in 2022 and comes from Navigating Through Turbulence, the EY UK Attractiveness Survey. As…
Yggdrasil, as any student of Norse mythology will know, is the ‘world tree’ – a huge ash, the branches of which cover the whole world….
CHAT: Your reasoning highlights important considerations regarding neoclassical economics and its potential limitations in addressing the broader concept of ‘wealth’ in the context of well-being…
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is not all it seems. When I was employed by Liverpool City Council in the 1970s, amongst other things, I was…
Rachel Reeves deludes herself if she thinks that ruling out a wealth tax will demonstrate Labour’s economic competence to most voters, when clearly what most…
US banks are again in the crosshairs. Standard and Poor’s has downgraded five new middle-tier banks and put three others on negative outlook. This follows sweeping downgrades earlier in…