Monday, 1 October 2018

The post-Brexit vote trade boost that never was

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There is still a huge disconnect between the reality of the state of the UK economy since the Brexit vote and media perceptions. I heard on...
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Friday, 28 September 2018

Would a Corbyn Brexit heal the nation or wound Labour?

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Just suppose May fails to get a deal, or her proposed Withdrawal Agreement (WA) fails to be passed by a majority of MPs. Suppose for some ...
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Tuesday, 25 September 2018

The Next Referendum Question

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I wrote in January about the “unanswerable case” for a referendum on the Withdrawal Agreement (it is not a second referendum but nor is i...
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Saturday, 22 September 2018

Theresa May has qualities, but negotiation skill is not one of them

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One of the important criteria I used in selecting posts for my new book out this November, The Lies we were Told, is that each chapter (c...
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Wednesday, 19 September 2018

Why Brexiters look defeated

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One reason Brexiters split in stage one of the Brexit endgame is that there is no good way forward for them. When Boris Johnson...
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Monday, 17 September 2018

How to predict a crisis

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I was sorting through some old papers over the weekend (don’t ask) and I found an article I wrote for the Financial Times on 19th October ...
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Friday, 14 September 2018

Another lesson of the GFC unlearnt: the Consensus Assignment is dead

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Martin Sandbu recently responded to critics of an earlier piece of his arguing that central bankers could and should have done more to ta...
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