The Russian bombardment is, first and foremost, a tragedy for the population of Ukraine. But a significant secondary consideration is…
Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s 2022 Mais Lecture, like many before it, has highlighted the UK’s productivity challenge. Regrettably, that challenge is…
Following the publication in the Sunday Times of David Smith’s annual league table of forecasts of the UK economy for…
2022 may not be the year of materially higher official short-term interest rates, but we can confidently predict that it…
Peter Warburton – January 13, 2022 While the 7 per cent headline rate of US CPI for December is headline…
Peter Warburton – December 20, 2021 Last week, the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee caused a stir in the…
Peter Warburton – November 22, 2021 Global corporate capital expenditure (or capex) will soar by 13 per cent this year,…
Peter Warburton – November 4, 2021 UK chancellor of the exchequer, Rishi Sunak, delivered an extraordinary budget last week in…
Peter Warburton – October 21, 2021 Sustainability is all the rage, and three cheers for that! However, the past three…
Peter Warburton – October 6, 2021 2020 was a blow-out year for public sector deficits. The unweighted average budget deficit…