As the New York Times reports this morning: The S&P 500 hit a fresh record high on Wednesday, reflecting investors’ optimism that a peace deal
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Lord George Robertson – a former Labour defence secretary, and former Secretary General of NATO – has made a claim about the UK’s defence capability
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A commentator on this blog called Jeremy Holmes posted this question yesterday: As a non-economist I am totally  – but perhaps naively – persuaded by
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There are a whole host of reports in the media this morning about Rachel Reeves, the International Monetary Fund, the change to the UK’s circumstances
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This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been,
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We are heading into an economic crisis on a scale comparable to the aftermath of a World War. Supply chains are fracturing. Energy costs are
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I have, during the life of this blog, used a program called StatCounter to monitor the number of people reading posts and to provide analytical
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There are mornings when I scan the news, reflect on what is happening in the world, and then come up with no connection between what
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Viktor Orbán has been defeated in Hungary. After sixteen years in power, during which authoritarian rule, rampant corruption, the systematic dismantling of Hungary’s free press
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