Two weeks after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake in Japan, carmakers began to halt production lines on every continent as they ran short of a specialised...
For those in despair with Britain’s political class, I bring good news. Its top economists, those without a political axe to grind, made excellent...
What is a realistic UK economic forecast for 2019? That was the test the Financial Times set 81 economists and their answers, typical of the...
Assume for a moment that a Brexit deal is struck soon. Then, one of the next steps towards ratification will be two official economic assessments,...
Move over Harold Wilson. The late UK prime minister’s fib 51 years ago that “the pound here in Britain, in your pocket” had not been devalued...
Take a wooden pallet and stick two sets of mundane goods on to it — Chinese plastic cutlery and British cuddly toys. As it trucks towards Dover,...
Let’s stop talking about Britain’s productivity puzzle. It has been solved. An explosion of new evidence shows that the blame lies with the...
A year ago, Andy Haldane caused a stir when he said that economists’ failure to foresee the 2008-09 crash had been the profession’s “Michael...
Theresa May started 2017 in a confident mood. The coming Brexit negotiations, she said in her January Lancaster House speech, would be a success...
From Pollyanna to Cassandra in under a day, the UK government’s independent economic forecaster has learnt how quickly its reputation can change....
