A protectionist push is underway in the world’s two leading financial services economies. This threatens to undermine not only the … Continue reading “How US and UK banking proposals threaten global growth and financial stability”

The chancellor should announce that this will be the last annual budget of its type. Unfortunately, the budget is now … Continue reading “Abolish the budget, cut spending and taxes”

The British government is right to be examining ways of shielding taxpayers from the costs of bank failure. However, proposals … Continue reading “Plan to ring-fence banks misguided”

The recent – apparently highly-acclaimed – ICB report smacks of an elegantly worked-out solution to problems that other bodies are addressing … Continue reading “Ring-fencing and the ICB – elegant, simple, but wrong”

As a fellow international rugby player (who also went to a grammar school) perhaps I may be allowed to put … Continue reading “Response from Terry Arthur to Brian Moore’s Article of 9th December 2010 (Daily Telegraph)”