The Rt Hon Dr Liam Fox MP, former Secretary of State for Defence, spoke at the IEA on The Road to … Continue reading “Rt Hon Liam Fox on Honest Money”

It is almost universally accepted that the first duty of government is the protection of its citizens.  As a former … Continue reading “Rt Hon Liam Fox MP – The Road to Honest Money”

Commenting on Jeremy Corbyn’s speech to Labour Party Conference, Mark Littlewood, Director General at the Institute of Economic Affairs, said: … Continue reading “Corbyn’s anti-market agenda will hit the poorest the hardest”

Following her address to the 2015 State of the Economy Conference Stephanie Flanders, Managing Director and Chief Market Strategist at JP … Continue reading “Stephanie Flanders on the ECB”

The heavy depreciation of the Chinese currency this week led to a worldwide shock through currency and stock markets. China’s … Continue reading “The renminbi depreciation – a small step towards liberalisation”

Andrew Palmer, Business Affairs Editor at The Economist speaks at the firat IEA THINK conference on financial innovation. He argued … Continue reading “THINK – The benefits of financial innovation”

The latest episode in the Greek debt drama, which ended with the Greek government’s agreement to undertake much-needed reforms in … Continue reading “The last thing we need is a French Eurozone”

About eight years ago, I attended an economics conference in Berlin, where one of the speakers criticised the structure of … Continue reading “Why Greece cannot prosper in the eurozone”

The ECB has finally launched its own open-ended Quantitative Easing (QE) planning to buy securities worth of €1.1tr euros. This … Continue reading “Price deflation is not a disaster, but a blessing”