Economy

The truth about corporate taxes

22 October 2022 9:00 am

I’ve chosen to write about corporate tax rates this week not because they’re the sexiest subject available but because –…

What makes a ‘crisis’?

22 October 2022 9:00 am

In his picture from 1932, ‘Derrière la gare Saint-Lazare’, Henri Cartier-Bresson caught the moment when a man in a hat…

What will the Halloween Budget bring?

22 October 2022 9:00 am

What will the Halloween Budget bring?

Divided they fall: can the Tories save themselves?

22 October 2022 9:00 am

Seldom has support for a government fallen so far, so fast. Polls show that 24 per cent of the public…

Truss is hurting the free-market cause

8 October 2022 9:00 am

In theory, I should be delighted about the Liz Truss project. She is saying the things I’ve been arguing for…

Is Credit Suisse the tornado on the banking horizon?

8 October 2022 9:00 am

Headlines about ‘alarm over CreditSuisse’ might be read as a sign of normality in financial news, rather than the reverse.…

Maybe Nanny does know best

1 October 2022 9:00 am

Not least among the shivers down my spine as I listen to Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng pump up the…

City slickers’ reaction to Kwarteng’s unfunded plan is entirely rational

1 October 2022 9:00 am

‘Fury at the City slickers betting against UK plc,’ shouted the Daily Mail on Tuesday, after Monday’s mayhem saw the…

Are you feeling lucky?

1 October 2022 9:00 am

There was an article recently in the increasingly woke but still useful New Scientist which attempted to gauge the degree…

Portrait of the week: Chancellor unveils his unBudget, Hilary Mantel dies and corgi prices soar

1 October 2022 9:00 am

Home Kwasi Kwarteng, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, presented a far-reaching ‘fiscal event’ (ineligible to be called a Budget), said…

The audacity of Kwarteng's tax cut for the rich

23 September 2022 7:46 pm

George Osborne dreamed about it and Rishi Sunak told friends that he’d like to do it if everything went well…

The painful road to lower inflation

22 September 2022 4:48 am

In the end, it could have been worse. The Federal Reserve might have followed Sweden’s lead, with a whole one…

Let’s see some energy policy action

17 September 2022 9:00 am

At His Majesty’s Treasury, it’s all looking a bit like Year Zero in revolutionary Cambodia. Kwasi Kwarteng’s first act was…

Buckle up! The Liz Truss era is here

10 September 2022 9:00 am

Can Liz Truss grow the economy?

Can anything halt the pound’s fall?

10 September 2022 9:00 am

My predecessor Christopher Fildes looked at exchange rates through a cocktail glass: three negronis for the Italian lira equivalent of…

Are the markets scared of Liz Truss?

6 September 2022 12:02 am

Look at the chart for interest rate expectations in isolation, and you might come to the conclusion that Rishi Sunak…

Trussonomics: a beginner’s guide

3 September 2022 9:00 am

Can a new economic plan get us through the winter?

It’s time to clear out the Bank of England’s board

27 August 2022 9:00 am

Liz Truss says she intends to review the Bank of England’s mandate, which has been fixed as a 2 per…

How to save money: switch to cash and reprogram your boiler

13 August 2022 9:00 am

We’ll find out shortly whether official statistics agree with economists surveyed by Bloomberg who say UK GDP probably shrank by…

A strange kind of recession

13 August 2022 9:00 am

It’s possible that I owe Joe Biden some sort of an apology, however mealy-mouthed it might be. Last week I…

Why Centrica is right to restore its dividend

6 August 2022 9:00 am

‘What’s worse, they’re paying the profits to shareholders,’ said a grey-haired woman ahead of me in the Co-op queue. ‘Bloody…

The real difference between Sunak and Truss's tax policies

2 August 2022 12:53 am

The Tory leadership race is becoming a test of patience. Today Rishi Sunak has laid out his plan to slash…

Trussonomics doesn’t add up

30 July 2022 9:00 am

I’ve been lucky enough in my working life so far to hold a string of jobs that have allowed me…

‘You can’t have your cake and eat it’: Rishi Sunak talks to Charles Moore

30 July 2022 9:00 am

As the leadership contest hots up, Charles Moore and Rishi Sunak sit down for a chat

Is the US in recession?

29 July 2022 1:27 am

There’s an almighty debate ongoing in the US about what exactly a ‘recession’ is. Regardless of semantics, the numbers are…