LibLink: Giles Wilkes – The hidden cost of quantitative easing
Over at The Guardian’s Comment Is Free website, Lib Dem blogger Giles Wilkes – liberal think-tank Centre Forum‘s award-winning chief economist – argues that though quantitative easing was needed to...
View ArticleOpinion: How to make QE into good Liberal Democrat policy
In the last week, there has been a silly fuss about the risk posed by a hung parliament following the next general election. Nick Clegg has scotched the idea that the Liberal Democrats would undermine...
View ArticleOpinion: Quantitative Easing would be a grave mistake
The recent comments from Bank Of England Governor Mevyn King , regarding the possibility of quantitative easing make little sense in the context of the Coalition’s current economic strategy and are...
View ArticleOpinion: Intelligent quantitative easing is best hope to stop the bleeding...
At our party Conference in Birmingham I described accelerated fiscal consolidation as pure poison: “Poison for the party, poison for the Coalition and, most important, poison for the country.” I know...
View ArticleOpinion: Getting radical with the money supply
Last week the OECD forecast that Britain was about to experience a double-dip recession, for the first time since 1975. Vince Cable in his Centreforum paper Moving from the financial crisis to...
View ArticleOpinion: Clutching at straws
I have spent the day clutching at a couple of straws. Last week in the tractor factory Nick Clegg appeared to confuse the ‘deficit’ with the National Debt when he said, “We have a moral duty to the...
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Opinion: More QE is not the solution to Britain’s economic challenges
With the predictability of a partner changing ‘our’ plans at the last minute, the announcement that UK inflation has fallen to its lowest level for two and a half years has been greeted with calls for...
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QE “benefits the better off” say Bank of England – so why are we still doing it?
In the first comprehensive report it has conducted into the impact of its Quantitative Easing (QE) policies on the UK economy, the Bank of England says that QE has “prevented a deeper recession” but...
View ArticleOpinion: Monetary policy is political, so where’s the democracy?
We are in extraordinary economic times, which have led to extraordinary measures from the Bank of England in its attempt to help steer us out of the storm. The Bank appears to be terrified at the...
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Opinion: Inflation the biggest threat to economic growth
Economic commentators and politicians searching for that most elusive of phenomena – economic growth appear to be operating a back to basics approach. The Bank of England takes the traditional...
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Opinion: Two ways to help fix the global crisis
It has long become clear that the financial crisis has been on a scale deeper and larger than many people have suspected. It has also been exacerbated by muddled policy responses from all Governments...
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