Day: 22 June 2017

The dreadful fire at Grenfell Tower, an event which becomes more shocking with each new day, is the final act in a process which began in innocence, but has ended with a terrible truth told in the deaths of innocent men, women and children, burned alive in their homes in the middle of a summer […]

This Blog has always been an interest rate hawk. Indeed worse than that. I believe, unlike almost every economist anywhere, that control of currency and interest rates by central banks has been a mistake. It has had advantages for global business, but its impact on ordinary lives has been negative, the gap between rich and […]