Are we really in danger of getting ‘designer babies’?
15th December 2018
There was a horrible inevitability about the recent announcement of a gene-edited baby: that it would happen at some point, that it would be in China, that... Read More >
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Sanctions are increasingly popular – but do they actually work?
14th December 2018
Around the world, growing numbers of governments are using economic sanctions as a tool to influence the behaviour of other countries. Their tactics are... Read More >
Gold stocks and the Three Bears
14th December 2018
At our recent Economic Perspectives breakfast seminar, ‘Who saves the world from 2020 peril?’, I identified three bear scenarios for the global economy... Read More >
An interview with Sandra Dowling
13th December 2018
Sandra leads PwC’s real estate practice in the UK and has been with the UK firm for over 25 years. She has FTSE listed experience working with REITs and... Read More >
Pelosi's last stand
13th December 2018
It is the fate of successful party managers to be liked by no one, but to be indispensable to all. On the 28 November, Nancy Pelosi won the House... Read More >
The Great Game of money, debt and Arab geopolitics
13th December 2018
Geopolitics has reshaped the financial markets and sovereign debt issuance pathologies of the Middle East since the 1880’s. After all, the Rothschild clan... Read More >
London’s highly inflated housing market is entering a period of equalisation
12th December 2018
Britain in 2025 will be very different from today. London and the UK reached peak inequality in 2018. That was when income inequalities at the very top were... Read More >
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Proud to be British
12th December 2018
It is always a pleasure to come across someone who makes you proud to be British. Baroness Trumpington, who died, aged 96, on 26 November, was one such... Read More >
Will things in Europe have to get worse before they can get better?
11th December 2018
The historian Arnold Toynbee characterised civilisation as “a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.” By necessity, civilisations are... Read More >
Housing – maths versus emotions
11th December 2018
INVESTMENT CONCLUSION
The UK housing bubble is a myth. Current price declines are principally function of Brexit-related uncertainty. While you’d have... Read More >
Policymakers still know too little about the economics of the internet
10th December 2018
The internet is ubiquitous and essential in our daily lives. But to many policymakers, it badly lacks visibility. When it comes to the availability of... Read More >
Fostering Deliberative Democracy
10th December 2018
Most of us probably go through periods of serious scepticism regarding the nature and practice of democratic government. Indeed, having lived and worked in... Read More >
What Jordan Peterson gets wrong about the Nordic gender paradox
9th December 2018
The Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson received considerable attention when he visited Stockholm recently. He was told to “crawl back under a rock”... Read More >
The case for a four-day week is compelling, but we don’t need the state to impose it
8th December 2018
Thanks to John McDonnell, a four-day working week is back in the news. The Shadow Chancellor has asked the economist Lord Skidelsky to write a report... Read More >
Mike Ashley is right about the dying high street, but wrong about the solution
7th December 2018
More news of Britain’s declining high street, with a Northumbria University study suggesting more than a quarter of Britain’s retail space has been... Read More >
An interview with Hugh Seaborn
7th December 2018
Hugh Seaborn joined Cadogan as Chief Executive in 2008. Prior to this he was Chief Executive of The Portman Estate for 9 years, where he repositioned the... Read More >
