I am giving evidence to the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee of the House of Commons this afternoon. The subject under discussion is the proposal that
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As the FT notes: Political opposition to the US Federal Reserve’s new $600bn round of quantitative easing — nicknamed QE2 — is becoming a push
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The FT notes: Inflation rose to 3.2 per cent in October, prompting Mervyn King to write a letter to George Osborne, the chancellor, to explain
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As the Guardian notes: The president of the European Union has warned that the EU could collapse unless the debt crisis that is gripping the
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Left Foot Forward has a blog with the above title by my friend and occasional co-author,George Irvin, who is a research professor at SOAS. I
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It is very obviously game over  for Ireland. Within 24 hours I have no doubt that it will have been forced to accept European money
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This is by J Bradford DeLong,a former US assistant secretary to the Treasury and now a professor of economics at the University of California at
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Gillian Tett argues in the Ft today that: Pity the Irish. In the past 18 months, Dublin has repeatedly unveiled commendably bold measures to fight
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I know, I said I would not comment any more on Martin Durkin’s appalling documentary on Channel 4 last night, but one, perhaps last, issue
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