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Britain should rise above Trump’s trade war
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The Dow drops by eleven hundred points, its largest one-day fall ever. Equities around the world crash in sympathy. The…
The ‘experts’ must learn their lesson from Project Fear’s failure
Unemployment would soar. Trade would collapse. Factories would close, and house prices would be in freefall. Rewind to the spring…
John McDonnell and Davos are perfect for one another
The headlines just about write themselves. A hard-left Labour shadow chancellor flies off to Davos to preach revolution and socialism…
Rupert Murdoch is selling Sky at the top of the market
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The last thing the UK needs is higher Scottish taxes
A top rate of 50 percent? A wider range of tax bands? Lower allowances? Or some combination of all three?…
Here’s what we should get from Brussels for our £40 billion
A high speed rail line from Manchester to Glasgow. Three of the shiny new Elizabeth lines crossing London. Thirty or…
Stamp duty was already a mess – but we just made it worse
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An investors’ guide to surviving Corbyn
Windfall taxes imposed overnight. A sweeping programme of nationalisation. A levy on every bank transaction. A campaign on ‘back taxes’…
If the City can’t replace 75,000 jobs, it has bigger problems than Brexit
The wine bars will be spookily empty. The lap-dancing clubs will be abandoned, and Savills will have to start working…
The cost of a Brexit ‘no deal’ is diminishing
The exit bill keeps going higher and higher. No progress has been made on the Irish border, and not much…
Capping energy prices will leave us all worse off
We have a couple of hundred years of economic history to tell us that some things are just a really,…
We need a free market in credit cards – just like everything else
There are some commercial decisions that are intrinsically difficult to defend. The plot of the last Captain America film, for…
Forget hard or soft. What we need is a quick Brexit
Should the exit bill be €20bn or €40bn? Should the trade deal be the ‘Swiss-plus’ or ‘Canada-lite’? Should our negotiating…
The Bank of England can’t remain in its ‘Brexit’ parallel universe forever
House prices are in freefall. Unemployment is rising relentlessly. The pound is plunging on the markets, and companies are re-locating…
Macron’s biggest enemy is himself – not the unions
The labour market would be revolutionised. France would start growing rapidly again, leading the way in Europe. Tech entrepreneurs would…
Britain should pay a Brexit bill – but only on one condition
Fifty billion? Seventy-five? In its wilder moments, the FT might even splash on a hundred billion pounds as the minimum…
Britain – not Brussels – is doing all the innovative thinking on Brexit
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Emmanuel Macron has already given up on reforming France
Labour regulations were going to be swept aside. The euro would be reformed, tech entrepreneurs would flock to Paris, and…
The IMF still hasn’t understood the economics of Brexit
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Is Vince Cable really an economic guru?
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Meet the new leaders of Project Soft Brexit: Mark Carney and Philip Hammond
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The chances of a catastrophic Brexit have just dramatically increased
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If Corbyn wins, the markets will be in full-scale panic
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