Friday, 25 February 2022

Why the price of Johnson staying in power is measured in yet more human lives

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  Next weeks blog is early because of topicality and grandchildren. It is probably a failed attempt at transforming raw anger into meaningfu...
Monday, 21 February 2022

We are in an unprecedented era of UK relative macroeconomic decline

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Long time readers of this blog will be familiar with this chart, of UK real GDP per capita since just after WWII. It shows a remarkably...
Tuesday, 15 February 2022

No one should be impartial when it comes to defending democracy on either side of the Atlantic

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  Two recent events, one in the US and one in the UK. In the US the Republican National Committee, in its annual meeting in Salt Lake Ci...
Monday, 7 February 2022

Why are interest rates on the rise in the UK and US?

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  Interest rates have increased twice in the UK and the Fed has signaled increases to come. To some the reason for this might seem obvious. ...
Monday, 31 January 2022

The US has had the best vaccine-shaped recovery from the pandemic, despite inflation fears, yet Tory ministers pretend otherwise

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  One of my (partially) unfulfilled quests is to understand why voters think the Conservatives are better at running the economy, when the o...
Thursday, 27 January 2022

The damage caused by Boris Johnson and Brexit goes way beyond his office parties

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  This post is not about the personality of Boris Johnson (for an excellent account of his rise and fall, see Peter Jukes here ). Instead it...