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A perfect storm: the UK’s next banking crisis
Nick Silver
6 January 2009
22 comments

The UK has recently undergone a banking crisis, the reasons for which have been much analysed, but basically boil down to a mixture of liquidity problems (banks unwilling to lend to each other) and...
Green ‘New Deal’ will sink the UK further into the red
Richard Wellings
5 January 2009
4 comments

Will a green ‘New Deal’ help get Britain out of recession? The Liberal Democrats, for example, have proposed the reopening of disused railway lines as a means of boosting the economy....
Who cares about the pound? I don’t
Philip Booth
22 December 2008
6 comments

Maybe sterling has overshot a bit. Currencies do that sort of thing and we should not worry unduly. Maybe sterling has fallen because people have no confidence in the long-term ability of the UK...
Why the last laugh will be on Sir Humphrey
Nick Silver
12 December 2008
6 comments

By continually blocking reforms to public sector pension schemes, the leaders of the public sector unions may be dooming their members to an old age spent in penury. In his excellent monograph, Sir...
How I learned to stop worrying and love the demographic time bomb
Nick Silver
5 December 2008
2 comments

There is a general perception that the ageing population of developed countries will lead to some kind of crisis or demographic “time bomb”. The new IEA monograph Pension Provision:...
Are Western governments heading for bankruptcy?
Nick Silver
26 November 2008
24 comments

If you are a company, you have to include pensions liabilities as a debt in your accounts. However, governments, while professing to follow private sector practices in their accounts, turn a blind...
The Pre-Budget Report: will Atlas shrug?
Richard Wellings
25 November 2008
14 comments

One of the most noteworthy elements of the 2008 Pre-Budget Report was the planned increase in income tax rates to 45% for those earning over £150,000. This measure is intended to...
The government should ditch Crossrail to help balance the books
Richard Wellings
9 October 2008
10 comments

The British government unwisely entered the current slowdown with a sizeable budget deficit. Recent bank bailouts are likely to push the national accounts further into the red and increased...

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