By: Helen Thomas

CEO & Founder - Blonde Money Helen Thomas CEO and Richard Brownlees COO set up BlondeMoney almost a decade ago to bring together the worlds of Westminster and Wall Street.

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Markets should accept cheap money isn’t coming back

Opinion

We are no longer living in the post-financial crisis world, and the market needs to adjust, writes Helen Thomas.
Germany’s politics have become unsustainable

Opinion

German Chancellor Merz and the CDU face a severe political crisis following disastrous state election results and plunging approval ratings, says Helen Thomas “It was a disaster” said German Chancellor Merz after the results of two key German elections. If anything, that was an understatement. The CDU suffered the humiliation of falling below the five [...]
How do central bankers decide interest rates when inflation is so unpredictable?

Opinion

The Federal Reserve, Bank of England and Bank of Japan all confront the same question this week: how do you set interest rates when inflation is being buffeted by forces well beyond your control? Writes Helen Thomas Three of the world’s most important central banks meet this week, with the Federal Reserve, Bank of England [...]

The Fed wants you to get used to higher interest rates

September 7, 2026

Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh is urging markets to stop relying on central bank guidance and instead independently interpret economic data, signalling a shift toward a paradigm where higher interest rates are accepted as a component of a high-growth, prosperous economy, says Helen Thomas “We should not indulge a regime in which market participants are [...]
Will Britain follow Japan’s great growth gamble?

July 28, 2026

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has unveiled an expansionary economic blueprint aiming to break Japan’s long-standing cycle of stagnation through state-led investment, creating a precarious balancing act for the Bank of Japan as it attempts to maintain market confidence and monetary stability, says Helen Thomas A newly installed leader promises to break with the economic [...]
Andy Burnham should start by scrapping the £100k tax trap

July 21, 2026

Cutting taxes is expensive, but there is a way Andy Burnham could make them simpler and fairer, says Helen Thomas Andy Burnham’s first interview as Labour’s presumptive Prime Minister contained a somewhat unlikely observation. Speaking to the Sunday Times, he said one issue repeatedly raised on the doorstep was the frozen £12,570 personal allowance. It [...]
Could an England World Cup win boost the markets?

July 14, 2026

The equity markets of World Cup-winning countries frequently outperform immediately after victory. A Goldman Sachs study of tournaments from 1974-2014 found that every winner except Brazil in 2002 subsequently enjoyed a period of market outperformance, says Helen Thomas If football finally came home, what might it do for financial markets, aside from a late start [...]
South Korea is the canary in the coalmine of the AI boom

July 7, 2026

South Korea’s experiment with leveraged single-stock ETFs has shown how quickly passive investing, concentrated markets and retail speculation can feed on one another, says Helen Thomas The new frontier for the AI boom isn’t Silicon Valley but South Korea. While the country has long been home to technology giants such as Samsung Electronics, the country’s [...]
Are we about to see one of the biggest shifts in monetary policy since the financial crisis?

June 30, 2026

Chair Kevin Warsh believes the Federal Reserve should offer forward guidance, arguing that promises about future policy quickly become shackles around a central bank’s neck. He could be about to get his way, says Helen Thomas As the first half of the year draws to a close, the world’s leading central bankers gather this week [...]
The next Prime Minister can change the conversation on the fiscal rules

June 23, 2026

Since the defenestration of Liz Truss, the OBR has become an obsession in British politics. It need not be this way. Independent fiscal institutions are supposed to inform politics, not rule it. Other countries use them as sources of transparency, not as judge, jury and executioner, says Helen Thomas The next Prime Minister and Chancellor [...]

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