Liz Truss had promised the review of the Bank of England’s (BoE) independence in monetary policy decisions during her Conservative Party leadership contest in August…
Liz Truss had promised the review of the Bank of England’s (BoE) independence in monetary policy decisions during her Conservative Party leadership contest in August…
The fact that today’s interest rate decision comes in the midst of Pension Awareness Week should not be understated. In the current climate of raging…
It is positive that the Bank of England is excluding coal from its purchases, under its Corporate Bond Purchase Scheme , but it raises the…
RADIX Senior Fellow, Ismail Erturk, writes in Forbes where we are as the Bank of England baton passes from Mark Carney to Andrew Bailey. Mark…
DEMOCRACY OR TECHNOCRACY? PAUL TUCKER’S BOOK IS A BOLD ATTEMPT BUT FALLS SHORT In a paper published in 2016, RADIX sought to stimulate a debate…
Two years ago, we launched Radix with our first paper focused on the Bank of England’s quantitative easing programme. The core questions we raised in that paper…
What a confused state economists and central bankers are in these days. One can’t envy them their job – always difficult but apparently now veering…
It is more than 17 years now since, I gather, I coined the phrase ‘virtual currencies’. I know this because of Wikipedia which tells me…
Well, you have to, don’t you. There they are, inheritors of an economic tradition which suggests that they can only use interest rates to tweak…
Monetary systems have to address conflicting problems which make any design a compromise. A monetary system needs to make sure that the quantity of money…
I was recently chatting to the chairman of a FTSE 100 company. I suggested that the UK economy reminded me of a failing company in…
Joe Zammit-Lucia, Radix Trustee and Ismail Erturk will participate in a workshop organized under the auspices of The M.S Merian International Centre of Advanced Studies…