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The Bank and recession
A few days ago the government celebrated news the UK unlike Germany has escaped recession so far, and welcomed IMF forecasts showing no recession ahead. Now a clumsy Bank of England has driven bond prices down so mortgage rates up as it needlessly threatens more bond sales at depressed prices....Read More »
Lecture on Central banks
Today I will give a public lecture at 11 am in All Souls High Street Oxford about Central banks.
I will ask why the Fed, Bank of England and European CB all got their forecasts hopelessly wrong and took inflation up to around 5 times target. I will ask why The...Read More »
My lecture on Sustainable Economic Growth at Reading University
Please find the audio recording from my lecture on Sustainable Economic Growth, Public and Private Partnerships delivered to students at Reading University, Henley Business School.
It begins at 3:47.
...Read More »My Interview with Jacob Rees Mogg on GB News
Please find below my GB News interview with Jacob Rees Mogg where we discuss the International Monetary Fund’s inaccurate economic forecasts, the Bank of England’s policies and expanding capacity.
My Interview is between 6:43-13:26
...Read More »Levels of migration
This week when we finally hear how many people came to UK over the last year we are warned the figure could be considerably higher than the 504,000 additional people when we saw the last annual figure. Some are saying it could rise as high as a million. Others think...Read More »