Earlier this month American Banker’s Mayra Rodríguez Valladares reported on what she regarded as “a bleak winter for financial reformers … Continue reading “Crony capitalism cannot be ‘tamed’ with more regulation”

The peculiarities of the United States’ recurrent debt ceiling disputes stem from the Great War, when Congress resolved to allow … Continue reading “Government debt is not a ‘national blessing’”

In the face of mounting doubts as to the merits of High Speed 2 (HS2), Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin continues … Continue reading “High Speed 2 benefits special interests at the expense of the wider economy”

Writing in The Guardian, Jesse Norman opined that recent weeks have ‘revealed a sea change in the whole nature of … Continue reading “Tackling the problem of pressure-group politics”

In the wake of the financial crisis, there are growing movements in the USA and the UK to abolish the … Continue reading “How independent are central banks?”

Americans are little more than half a year away from full implementation of the Affordable Care Act (‘Obamacare’). Small businesses … Continue reading “The scourge of Obamacare”