This is my latest comment for Fund Strategy. As Ben Hunt argues in this week’s cover story there is a desperate need for a new form of supply side economics. Only it will be fundamentally different to what is normally meant by that term. Mainstream economics nowadays is overwhelmingly focused on demand. Or, to put [...]

This is my latest comment from Fund Strategy. It would be far better if the discussion of Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s legacy had focused on economics rather than sex. In the event it is grotesquely wrong on both counts. To be clear, the sexual assault charges against Strauss-Kahn relate to what are essentially acts of ­violence. If [...]

This is my latest comment from Fund Strategy magazine. The government’s self-righteous moralising over Libya seems to have distracted attention from its attempts to promote innovation. From the coalition’s perspective this is probably a bonus as its plans for “StartUp Britain” are unconvincing. Since it became clear that the need for austerity was almost universally [...]