Growing pains

The debate about how to raise economic growth begs a question, says Chris Dillow. “Is rapid growth possible even with the best feasible policies?” Since 1750, trend growth of much above 1% per year wa

seem like an odd place to anchor a climate summit. At a time when leading climate thinkers are increasingly calling for systemic change, it screams tradition. Built in 1411, the medieval auditorium is

Matthew Partridge: In your new book, The Economic Consequences of Mr Trump: What the Trade War Means for the World, you posit that president Donald Trump’s threats over tariffs are real, rather than a

Our Dollar, Your Problem An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and The Road Ahead Kenneth Rogoff Yale University Press, £25 For the past eight decades, the US dollar has been

Drive on country roads at the moment and you’ll see a lot of signs saying ‘no!’. “NO to the Family Farm Tax!” “NO Farmers, NO Food!” There’s anger in the shires at the Labour Government, who swept to

Companies in the news and how they were assessed