Is britain heading for a big debt crisis?

Despite legitimate concerns this does not look like a repeat of the mini-Budget crisis three years ago

Central banks are back in easing mode, but the descent down the interest-rate mountain is proving arduous and slow. The US Federal Reserve lowered US rates by a quarter of a percentage point at this m

“British gilts are the most undervalued financial asset on the planet,” says Ambrose-Evans Pritchard in The Telegraph. The UK ten-year gilt yields a decent 4.7%. Yet investors prefer to pile into bitc

Age brings wisdom – or at least experience. MoneyWeek is approaching its 25th birthday (the first edition appeared on 3 November 2000), and is therefore in a better position than many publications to

The apologists for the relentless expansion in the size and cost of Britain’s public-sector debt like to point out that other major developed economies face a similar predicament. Although government

The next time Keir Starmer “declares he has ‘full confidence’ in a subordinate, they might quickly seek the advice of a headhunter”, says Martin Ivens in Bloomberg. Both Angela Rayner, his ex-deputy P