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This year, the price of a ‘safe’ 10-year UK government gilt has fallen by 25% and that of a 30-year gilt by 50%. The price of an index linked 15-year gilt has fallen by 60%. Investment falls of these magnitudes…
There is something profoundly efficient in the UK’s unwritten constitution. It has been able to so quickly and quite ruthlessly removed a failed Prime Minister and started again as if nothing had happened. We can certainly say that we live…
Central banks are approaching the point of maximum danger as they attempt to both curb inflation without tipping economies into a painful recession. With UK inflation at 10.1% and eurozone at 10.7%, central banks are expected to react to this…
A week has been a long time in both UK politics and the UK economy as markets punished Prime Minister Liz Truss and now ex Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng for a non-costed tax reducing budget. Announcing a fiscal stimulus package contingent…
