pound

Can the Bank of England inspire confidence?

27 September 2022 2:54 am

It has dawned on the government that last week’s mini-Budget might have been a bit too one-sided: £70 billion worth…

How worrying is the falling pound?

24 September 2022 3:46 am

How are markets responding to Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-Budget? A sharp fall in the pound today has plenty of critics arguing…

The City says it’s for staying in but I wonder what the big beasts think

27 February 2016 9:00 am

‘The City is in no doubt that staying in Europe is the only way ahead,’ declared Mark Boleat for the…

Who’s afraid of deflation?

24 January 2015 9:00 am

Campaigning in Putney in 1978, Mrs Thatcher famously took out a pair of scissors and cut a pound note down…

Alex Salmond’s economic policies would drive an independent Scotland into the ground

23 November 2013 9:00 am

Within the white paper on economic policy in an independent Scotland that was published by Alex Salmond’s government this week…