The UK economy is growing at a relatively fast rate at present. The first estimate of GDP growth in 2014 is that the...
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Stephen Beer Articles
Tories’ tax cut black hole
The new year has begun with a political battle about spending. Labour focused on the deteriorating state of the NHS...
Welcome to OBR World
Labour is right to stress that it will cut the deficit it will inherit after the election in May. The party has...
The importance of hope
Once again, turmoil has hit financial markets. Once again, hard questions are being asked of political leaders around...
Banks, media, power
This week Europe has been on the brink, with a financial crisis that threatened to take a turn for the worse. Surely...
The other great crisis
While attention was last week focused on the crisis surrounding News Corp, another crisis was slowly burning away...
Consensus not the same as doing the right thing
His points about economic policy and his references to examples from the past echoed his Bloomberg leadership election...
Economic competence: Does Labour have a credibility deficit?
It was referred to in question and answer sessions and in a dedicated seminar in the morning. Coming out of that, it...
More radical bank reform
The IBC is clear about the impact of the financial crisis on the UK economy: national output has fallen by 4.5 per...
Creating the Good Society
And just like the 'Third Way', lots of people are rushing to put flesh on the bones of this concept and to define it....
The danger of no growth plan
Most forecasters were surprised that GDP fell 0.5 per cent in the fourth quarter, according to the preliminary...
Labour’s economic message
Inflation data for November surprised slightly on the upside. Prices in the UK were buoyed by food, clothing, and...