who wrote to the Financial Times last week, I would like to refer them and the reader to my paper … Continue reading “Not reducing debt is the greater danger”

Just after Christmas a number of members of the IEA’s SMPC wrote to the Sunday Times about the dire need … Continue reading “We can’t go on like this…but who is going to stop us?”

" Whilst it might be presumptuous of me to disagree with the sixty eminent economists who wrote to the Financial … Continue reading “Not reducing debt is the greater danger”

Just after Christmas a number of members of the IEA’s SMPC wrote to the Sunday Times about the dire need … Continue reading “We can’t go on like this…but who is going to stop us?”

It is widely agreed that state pension age (SPA) needs to rise to reflect the financial downside of the happy … Continue reading “Raising the pension age by easier stages could minimise political hostility”

Today is International Labour Day, a day to celebrate “the social achievements of the workers”. Or so they say. Unfortunately, … Continue reading “An alternative Labour Day: Chile’s private pension system turns 28”

As the sterile thinking of incumbent politicians will not be sufficiently radical to reverse the growth in the size of … Continue reading “IEA Bloggers’ Budget”

The Financial Times’ chief economics commentator, Martin Wolf, has put forward a convincing explanation for the ultimate cause of the … Continue reading “Demography and the financial crisis”

I argued in a previous blog article that an ageing population is not necessarily problematic provided pay-as-you-go (PAYG) pension systems are scaled … Continue reading “China: the mother of all demographic time bombs”