“U.S., China Close In on Trade Deal.” Sunday afternoon’s Wall Street Journal article led with: China and the U.S. are in the final stage of completing a trade deal, with Beijing offering to lower tariffs and other restrictions on American farm, chemical, auto and other products and Washington considering removing most, if not all, sanctions […]
“Once I built a tower, now its done, Brother, can you spare a dime?” In the headlines this morning Another fascinating weekend… It’s a holiday in the US, and much of UK is off for mid-term. I’m still trying to digest the importance of last week’s news about Amazon pulling out of its New York […]
“Five Things to Watch in the January Jobs Report.” This morning’s Wall Street Journal article led with: The U.S. government releases its broad measure of the January labor market [at 8:30 AM EST] on Friday. Economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal expect the Labor Department to report employers added 170,000 jobs during the month […]
Power in local government is particularly important to a political party that is in opposition nationally. For a start there is the impact on morale of council election results. Politicians can dismiss (or pretend to dismiss) opinion polls. Real elections cannot be so easily brushed aside. So local elections are taken, quite reasonably, as a […]
“Trump team weighs surprise tariff cut in hopes of securing China trade deal.” Last night’s Washington Post article led with: The Trump administration is considering eliminating tariffs on billions of dollars of Chinese imports to spur progress toward a trade deal, less than two weeks before a high-level delegation from Beijing is scheduled to arrive […]
Reading the Sunday papers can’t have been fun for Philip Hammond. After weeks of pressure from the health secretary and Number 10, it seems the chancellor has been forced to allow a big new spending pledge on the NHS to go ahead without any agreement yet on how it is to be funded. The chancellor […]
Having lost the respect of the politicians, testing times are ahead. […]
Now that the political party conference season is over, Ian Fletcher, Director of Policy at the BPF, shares his thoughts on housing policy directions. […]
Why restrictions on supply must be eased. […]
Paul Winstanley explains the dilemma the government is currently facing. […]
