Background The UK has endured two significant economic shocks in the last ten years. The first is what has become known as the global banking crisis in which the UK...
The Bank of England has finally decided to raise interest rates from their historically low levels, the first increase since the financial crisis a decade or so ago. The Bank’s...
Economic activity is, in many parts of the globe, accelerating at a sensible rather than an unsustainable rate. This is true in particular in the US and in the Eurozone,...
Introduction It is perhaps no wonder that economics is often referred to as being ‘the dismal science’. While the phrase first appeared around 170 years ago, in a very different...
Until the recent general election there was a degree of certainty supporting stock markets. This reflected the government’s intention to deliver what has become known as a “hard Brexit” which...