I promise I will get bored of this soon. But I thought posterity needed to know that I have attended two events on this subject in the last week. The first at the IoG has a higher suit ratio than I had ever witnessed, but was correspondingly high quality. It’s Chatham House, so I cannot [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Debt’
2 Feb
Blame Bush for everything
Check out Graph of the Day from this post by Brad DeLong. That’s it; I am removing Dubya from the CentreForum mailing list.
11 Jan
Gilt market conundrums*
To my amateur eyes, the shape of the gilt market suggests a fairly settled demand for our debt.
8 Jan
Icelandic dilemma
Icelandic defaulting throws up more issues than I can competently cover in a single post.
20 Nov
Counterintuitive thought of the week: this isn’t the worst debt mess since the War
When you want to assess the costs of various episodes, you must take into account debt costs, not just the level of debt.
13 Nov
Apologies for light blogging – events, dear boy . . .
A superb one day “dealing with debt” conference gets a shamefully short and selective summary.
4 Nov
If you read anything today, read the Wolf
The hopeless hysteria about blame for the deficits gets it badly wrong. But talking about spending cuts is a very wise plan
21 Oct
Overheard at Conservative Central Office
The wizard chaps within the right-thinking community believe we can invest and export our way out of this mess, while wiping away a 12% debt in 5 years. For their next trick, cold fusion, 80 gold medals in London 2012 and a ladder to the moon.
19 Oct
Seriously, the CBI is trying to drive us into another Depression
The CBI’s call to cut £120bn off government spending by 2015-16 (even cumulatively) is the worst piece of economic advice to be offered all year, against some pretty strong competition from The Right hon. G Osborne.
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