A bigger London can be an even better London January 5, 2016 London is already Europe’s largest city, with a population in excess of 8.6m. The Greater London Authority expects this figure to climb to 11.3m over the next 25 years, but a fascinating report by Oxford Economics says that the GLA has underestimated the continuing boom, and that our city’s population will reach 12m by 2050. The [...]
As China fears spark a global market rout, is the country the greatest risk to the world economy in 2016? January 5, 2016 Rebecca O’Keeffe, head of investment at Interactive Investor, says YES. You only have to look at the reaction to yesterday’s disappointing data and subsequent global stock market rout to appreciate just how important China has become to international investors. While the US economy is still much larger, relative growth rates mean that China is actually [...]
Business is in denial about the true likelihood of Brexit January 5, 2016 What are the economic implications of Brexit? Pro and anti-EU camps have been trading statistics for years about the number of jobs or level of exports linked to EU membership. It is a theoretical debate but, if Britain does vote to leave the EU, it will become very real. Most recent opinion polls have showed [...]
A vicious circle of state intervention is taking Britain’s energy markets back to the 1970s January 5, 2016 Whether you are a green activist or a poverty campaigner, energy policy under the Thatcher-Major-Blair governments was a striking success. Between 1990 and 1999, prices for domestic consumers fell by 26 per cent and the fall for industrial consumers was even greater. Energy-related greenhouse gas emissions per unit of GDP fell by 45 per cent [...]
As China fears spark a global market rout, is the country the greatest risk to the world economy in 2016? January 5, 2016 Rebecca O’Keeffe, head of investment at Interactive Investor, says Yes. You only have to look at the reaction to yesterday’s disappointing data and subsequent global stock market rout to appreciate just how important China has become to international investors. While the US economy is still much larger, relative growth rates mean that China is actually [...]
As China fears spark a global market rout, is the country the greatest risk to the world economy in 2016? January 5, 2016 Rebecca O’Keeffe, head of investment at Interactive Investor, says YES. You only have to look at the reaction to yesterday’s disappointing data and subsequent global stock market rout to appreciate just how important China has become to international investors. While the US economy is still much larger, relative growth rates mean that China is actually [...]
As China fears spark a global market rout, is the country the greatest risk to the world economy in 2016? January 5, 2016 Rebecca O’Keeffe, head of investment at Interactive Investor, says YES. You only have to look at the reaction to yesterday’s disappointing data and subsequent global stock market rout to appreciate just how important China has become to international investors. While the US economy is still much larger, relative growth rates mean that China is actually [...]
As China fears spark a global market rout, is the country the greatest risk to the world economy in 2016? January 5, 2016 Rebecca O’Keeffe, head of investment at Interactive Investor, says YES. You only have to look at the reaction to yesterday’s disappointing data and subsequent global stock market rout to appreciate just how important China has become to international investors. While the US economy is still much larger, relative growth rates mean that China is actually [...]
Why the European Union is no friend of innovation January 4, 2016 The story of the e-cigarette ought to feature as a case study in every economics class and every business studies textbook on every campus in the land. It's a story containing all the forces that shape market economics and enterprising endeavours. The e-cig first emerged in response to changing social and regulatory conditions, as tobacco [...]
The end of the West: 2016 is the year a new order begins to arise January 4, 2016 “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” Churchill, after the British victory at El Alamein This year will make it apparent to all but the most gormless that the comfortable, easy centuries of western dominance (under the Dutch, [...]