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Rafe Fletcher: Why Britain doesn’t invest, and how to fix it
2+ hour, 2+ min ago (927+ words) Americans feel some control over their financial future. Brits'don't.This breeds a zero-sum approach to money that manifests in pernicious ways. The post Rafe Fletcher: Why Britain doesn't invest, and how to fix it appeared first on Conservative Home. Deferred…...
F Andrew Wolf: Britons are becoming poorer. So, do we just accept It?
1+ week, 4+ day ago (806+ words) F Andrew Wolf, Jr. is director of The Fulcrum Institute, a new organisation of current and former scholars focused on American foreign policy as it relates to the economic and foreign policies of the NATO countries, the BRICS+ and the…...
Lord Ashcroft: Britain’s record-breaking youth exodus risks generational economic loss
3+ week, 2+ hour ago (904+ words) Young people are leaving the UK in record numbers causing a significant exodus of talent " or "brain drain" " that looks certain to harm the economy for decades to come. Furthermore, the current emigration rate from the UK for all age…...
Jake Waterfield: Introducing 'LUKE' – a vision of what a Conservative-backed UK Sovereign Wealth Fund should look like
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (380+ words) Jake Waterfield is a young finance professional in London. He ran the 2025 London marathon to raise money for St Bartholomew's Hospital who saved his life in 2024." With Labour having launched the National Wealth Fund (NWF) in October 2024, the Conservatives now…...
John Glen: Banks must come to the fore in tackling the UK’s financial exclusion problem
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (586+ words) The Rt Hon John Glen is a former Chief Secretary to the Treasury and MP for Salisbury and South Wiltshire. The UK's financial services sector is rightly regarded as a jewel in the crown of our economy. It is a…...
Terence Kealey: My surprise at four misleading Nobel prizes
3+ mon, 22+ hour ago (214+ words) Terence Kealey is writing a book provisionally titled "Endogenous Growth Nonsense." Yet these laureates have not actually explained innovation-driven economic growth, nor have they credibly integrated technological innovations into long-run macroeconomic analysis. Rather, as The Economist complained on the 12th April…...
Daniel Freeman: Building a culture of growth is a Nobel cause
3+ mon, 5+ day ago (591+ words) Daniel Freeman is Managing Editor of the Institute of Economic Affairs. Everyone in British politics, with the possible exception of the Greens, agrees that economic growth is sorely needed. Since the Great Recession in 2008 real per capita GDP growth in…...
John Oxley: Unemployment isn't a strategy it's a sign the economy is not remotely being fixed
3+ mon, 5+ day ago (397+ words) John Oxley is a consultant, writer, and broadcaster.His SubStack isJoxley Writes. The latest employment figures make worrying reading for anyone, but should be a real concern for the Chancellor as we move towards the Budget. Joblessness has ticked up…...
John Redwood: There is a magic money tree - the private sector, sensibly taxed
4+ mon, 4+ day ago (991+ words) Sir John Redwood is a former MP for Wokingham and a former Secretary of State for Wales. The UK is riding the doom loop. The state puts up taxes, that hits the economy, growth slows and the deficit increases; the…...
Mel Stride: Make no mistake, Labour is driving us over an economic cliff entirely of their making
4+ mon, 5+ day ago (666+ words) Sir Mel Stride is Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer and a former businessman. When Rachel Reeves stood at the Despatch box last October to deliver her maiden Budget, she told the Commons: What we got instead was a "25billion hammer blow…...