QE in various forms is now very much part of the economic conversation, especially in connection with recent market turmoil. Dynamic Quantitative Easing (also called Peoples Quantitative Easing) remains under government, not bank, control and targets specific investment projects without borrowing, interest or repayments. It can reboot the economy, boost manufacturing and exports and enable sustained growth […]
There are two kind of crisis which countries must guard against. The first is a political crisis. The second is an economic crisis. But sometimes an economic crisis extends to become a political crisis and vice versa. We are now engulfed in a political crisis. In 2008 we had an economic crisis which was sudden […]
As I kept the two minute silence at 07.28 this morning to commemorate the centenary of the start of the Battle of the Somme, with an eye on the television screen showing the scene at the battlefield memorial at Thiepval to honour the dead with no known grave, one of those dead gazed down at me from his portrait […]