The Richter Scale

Economist around the world watch Japan with baited breath, there is much at stake for the both sides of the argument, The Keynesian wing ha...

It happens in all great industrial upheavals, first there is a boom then a premature bust, followed by a period of consolidation, then we ge...

The current state of our hospitals and specifically Accident and Emergency (A&E)  is a car crash waiting to happen.  The problems in A...

Yesterday's attack on an off duty soldier in the London suburb of Woolwich is a truly shocking event.  The two deranged men hacked the m...

In a recent speech Ben Bernanke, head of the US Federal Reserve told us that the stagnation of the labour market is a “grave concern” becaus...

In many parts of the democratic world there have been growing concerns for the centralisation of power into the Executive.  In the UK this h...

The UK is embarking on a long overdue revamp of its welfare provision, this includes unemployment benefits, incapacity benefits, pensions, ...

The developed world’s economy is still staggering shakily after the credit bubble burst in 2008, all the indicators are flat-lining or falli...

Modern Germany (the Federal Republic) is now 64 years old, which is pretty young in comparison to most other nation states in Europe.  But f...

Stock markets are generally a much better forward economic indicator than ‘independent’ forecasters, and the indices around the world are ...