Quantitative Easing
Why do banks and governments seem to have learned nothing from the financial crash?
With September marking a decade since the Lehman Brothers implosion, stand by for a slew of economic retrospectives. Any meaningful…
Capitalism is the best system, but it has been undermined by Quantitative Easing
The Prime Minister spoke today at the Bank of England to celebrate its 20 years of independence. But she has…
Quantitative easing has made houses hopelessly unaffordable
Financial crises tend to see asset prices collapsing, making housing more affordable. But it’s been different this time because the…
Will Theresa May end the era of easy money and call time on QE?
When Theresa May was gearing up for a summer-long leadership campaign, she identified a worthy target: George Osborne’s addiction to…
The Bank of England has just taken a huge risk – on a Brexit boom
Plunging output. The FTSE in freefall. A financial collapse. Unemployment rising rapidly and trade falling off a cliff. At first…
The European market hangover – bad news is bad news again
In the latest Spectator, Liam Halligan takes a sobering look at European markets bearing the brunt of sanctions against Russia.…
Women think that David Cameron is out of touch for good reason
Well, the great breadmaking debate hots up. David Cameron neatly sidestepped the heffalump trap that Nick Ferrari put in his…
David Cameron DOES have a magic money tree
So David Cameron says there is ‘no magic money tree’. In his big economy speech today, the Prime Minister said:…
Osborne’s coup: Mark Carney is the new Bank of England Governor
Hiring Mark Carney may just be George Osborne’s best move since becoming Chancellor. Britain badly needed a break from the…
George ‘Masterchef’ Osborne spices up the accounts
Fresh from his success nationalising the Post Office pension, which artificially knocked £23 billion off the national debt, the Chancellor…
Sir Mervyn King: Quantitative easing is reaching its limit
Quantitative easing isn’t an eternal elixir of economic health. That was the admission from Bank of England Governor Sir Mervyn…
The poverty of economics
The IMF’s growth downgrades will make tomorrow’s newspaper headlines but the more striking point is its decision to massively rewrite…
QE — the ultimate subsidy for the rich
It’s official: Quantitative Easing has marked the biggest transfer of wealth to the rich of any government policy in recent…
QE is no substitute for a growth strategy
So the Bank of England is firing up the presses again, and injecting another £50 billion of Quantitative Easing (on…
Meryvn has his case for more QE
Last Thursday Mervyn King said ‘the case for further monetary easing is growing’, and today’s surprise inflation figures give the…
The IMF says it’s the Bank’s economy now
When the IMF published a report into the UK economy last year, I wrote a blog post detailing how it…
Metaphorical Merv
Mervyn King unfurled a mast of metaphors this morning. ‘We are navigating through turbulent waters, with the risk of a…
QE is a government hijack, says King
While Mervyn continues to inflate our universe via Quantitative Easing, another Mr King — Stephen, the chief economist of HSBC…
QE comes to the fore
It’s roughly seven months until George Osborne’s Autumn Statement, so no better time to consider which political issues will come…
Right to reply: Why QE isn’t a disaster for pensioners
The best of all possible worlds for the pension industry is a buoyant economy. Workers have enough money to save,…
Osborne accidentally makes the case for more savings
Rhetoric aside, what’s the difference between left and right in British politics? You won’t catch either party quantifying it, because…
A warning for Osborne and his economic agenda
Why did Moody’s downgrade Britain to AAA with a negative outlook, but leave other countries on AAA? One crucial factor…
Nassim Taleb: Ban Tesco bonuses
There have been precious few people able to make sense of the crash. The main commentators didn’t see it coming…
A feast of Quantitative Easing
Fire up the printing presses, once again. The Bank of England has just announced another £50 billion of Quantitative Easing,…
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