How Brexit will reduce foreign investment in the UK – and why that matters
Apr 15, 2016 15:25 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Foreign investors love Britain, but Brexit would kill the vibe. According to new research colleagues and I have conducted at the Centre for Economic Performance, leaving the European Union could lead to a fall in inward...
Why Europe's new tax initiative is a big deal
Apr 15, 2016 15:16 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Public outcry over revelations in the Panama papers about global levels of tax dodging has led to political action. Europes five largest economies the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain have agreed to new transparency...
Lessons from the steel crisis of the 1980s
Apr 15, 2016 15:13 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Tata Steel has sent the British government scurrying into action after the Indian firm put its UK assets up for sale and left more than 15,000 jobs at risk. Debate has centred on whether the state should provide incentives...
Donald Trump's nuclear threats could trash the global order
Apr 15, 2016 15:10 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Donald Trump has once again violated all mainstream thinking to advance a dangerous and deviant policy, this time on nuclear weapons. The wannabe Republican presidential nominee recently said the US needs a policy of...
Does income tax and benefits reduce inequality in Britain?
Apr 15, 2016 15:05 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
The aim of progressive taxation and the welfare state is to redistribute wealth from the richest to the poorest in an effort to erode the worst aspects of poverty and inequality. How well the British tax and benefits...
Apr 15, 2016 12:46 pm UTC| Insights & Views Commentary
The post-policy SGD nominal effective exchange rate (NEER) is back into the lower half of its new neutral policy band. This is consistent with the Monetary Authority of Singapores (MAS) expectation for core inflation to...
ECB likely to stand pat in April, key focus on tone of the press conference
Apr 15, 2016 11:15 am UTC| Insights & Views
When the governing council of the European Central Bank meets in Frankfurt on April 21, its likely to leave monetary policy unchanged. At its March meeting, the ECB cut its main refi rate by five basis points (bp) to zero,...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects