In response to the extension of the furlough scheme until the end of March, IEA Editorial and Research Fellow Professor … Continue reading “Furlough extension will keep many people in artificial “employment,” says IEA expert”

IEA Director of Communications Annabel Denham has written an article for CapX  arguing that we should look at what has … Continue reading “Recent history could offer a path out of this crisis”

 New briefing paper and accompanying open letter from the Institute of Economic Affairs highlight the conditions that prevailed during recent periods of economic … Continue reading “Economists, politicians, academics and businesspeople sign open letter to the Chancellor”

Conditions for growth are not a mystery – we have seen them in the UK in the recent past. This … Continue reading “The Chancellor’s Post-Pandemic Choices”

The Telegraph has revealed that secret “stress tests” by Treasury officials in recent weeks found that a hike in interest … Continue reading “Risk of a rise in interest rates “not an immediate one””

A Sunday Times article has raised the issue of how the government should wean the private sector off government support … Continue reading “Furlough was necessary but “market forces should be allowed to prevail””

In response to reports that the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, is said to be considering a VAT cut followed by tax … Continue reading “Hard to imagine a “worse combination” than VAT cut followed by tax rises”

This Sunday the Observer ran a frontpage story headlined ‘rightwing thinktanks call time on austerity era’. I was quoted in … Continue reading “No, Observer: free-market think-tanks have not changed their tune”