Get Up, Stand Up! How Jamaica Turned Itself Around
Jamaica is rising. For years the Caribbean island was dogged by debts, defaults, and capital flight. No longer. Jamaica is on the up – and it’s a role…
The Cash Clinic 2024: Making Money in a Madcap Market
What to do with your money in 2024? Property, stocks, bonds, which way are the markets going? What are the big macroeconomic policy moves in the next …
The Great British Break Off: The UK After Brexit
Now that the Queen is Dead, what’s keeping the UK together? The great English Nationalist project has finally delivered an exit from the EU. What are…
Peak China?
For years it was assumed that the 21st century would belong to China. In a race to get rich before it gets old, China is stumbling. The economy has st…
America 2024: Trump Part 2: The Nightmare
He’s back and this time he’s even more angry. Yes you know it, he’s topping the Republican polls by miles, having gone even more rogue – if that were …
Is Economics Pale, Stale, and Male?
The clue is in the title. Is economics far too male, pale, and yes, as a result stale? Where are the women, the people of colour, those from poor coun…
Can Crypto Ever Come Back?
After a disastrous year, cryptocurrencies have faced much criticism as being a Ponzi scheme and a pump-and-dump scam, but what is the bigger picture? …
Telling stories with Data
John Burn Murdoch is probably the best explainer of global economics using amazing data and graphics in the business. He first shot to prominence duri…
Caught in a Trap? What do Central Banks Do?
Inflation is still rampant, sure, it’s coming down but not so quickly, yet interest rates are also still rising, but ex the USA growth is weak. Curren…
The Economics of Our Burning World
Climate change is, at its core, the most monumental failure of economics. The world is being destroyed because the market can’t put a price on the pla…