Nicola Sturgeon, leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), has declared that there will be a second independence referendum by … Continue reading “Solving the Scottish currency conundrum”

So Brexit it is. And if you believe many of the pundits opposing it, it would seem the UK has … Continue reading “The EU still doesn’t get it”

The IEA’s Brexit debate focuses exclusively on economic arguments, putting aside issues such as sovereignty, culture, and democratic legitimacy. Arguing … Continue reading “Should Free-Marketeers Support the EU?”

The European Commission has released its plan for an EU-wide deposit insurance scheme that will, at first, back up and … Continue reading “The Eurozone’s deposit insurance scheme creates more problems than it solves”

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”

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”

Greece shed its shackles only to realize that it was still in prison. Nothing has been resolved, and the can … Continue reading “A radical solution for Greece”

The former governor of the central bank of Poland Professor Leszek Balcerowicz has been critical of those who blame the … Continue reading “Causes of the euro crisis – Prof Leszek Balcerowicz”

IEA: The State of the Economy – Session Two The Institute of Economic Affairs’ 28th Conference: Britain in the global … Continue reading “2011 State Of The Economy (2)”