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Matthew LynnThe Telegraph |
Mortgage rates will finally start to come down again. Consumers will have a little more money in their pockets. And companies will find it cheaper to...
Growth will be turbo-charged, animal spirits will be unleashed, and foreign investment will flood back into Britain. Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves...
It will put more money in people’s pockets. It will improve the incentives to work. And it will put down a marker that the party does still believe...
At a certain point, your smartphone may no longer accept the latest software update from Apple or Google. Your laptop could get so cranky after four...
Apple’s much-hyped electric car appears to have been killed off before it ever hit the road. For years, the tech firm’s plan to branch out into...
The currency would collapse. Output would go into freefall. Unemployment would soar, and the IMF would be back in charge quicker than you could say...
A lot has happened over the past 34 years: the Cold War ended, several wars have taken place in the Middle East, a banking collapse occurred, and a...
The City of London would be hollowed out. Bankers would have to retrain as burger chefs. And Paris and Frankfurt would emerge as the twin centres of...
Thierry Breton is, on the face of it, well qualified to regulate Europe’s tech industry. After a brief spell as French finance minister, from 2009...
Government borrowing is lower than had been forecast. The economy needs some form of a boost. And perhaps most of all there is an election within a...
Christine Lagarde, the president of the European Central Bank, has one of the most glittering CVs in European politics. The ex finance minister of...
Why is Oxfam so concerned about the coming possibility of the world’s first trillionaire? The charity has this week released a report with an...
It has formidable negotiating skills, at least according to its cheerleaders. It has huge economic clout. And it can impose its will on companies and...
The charlatans had been exposed. Its flimsiness had been confirmed. And the bubble had finally burst. Rewind to just over a year ago, and with the...
Well that was a surprise. At just 3.9 per cent, down from 4.7 per cent, the latest inflation figure published today came as a shock for many. The...
The Argentinian peso has been devalued by 50 per cent overnight. Controls on exports have been scrapped, and the Ministry of Culture is to be closed...
They are cheap to run. They rarely break down. And perhaps most of all they are far better for the environment. For the last decade we have been...
Everything in the shops is getting more expensive, and restaurant bills have become prohibitive. We are all aware that food price inflation is a major...
Critics of Argentina’s president Javier Milei have already made up their minds: he is a lunatic and his plans will collapse on first contact with...
When Jeremy Hunt takes to his feet in the Commons this afternoon to deliver his Autumn Statement, he’ll be trying to woo voters with some tax...
At least there will be some pandas. At his summit with President Biden this week, China’s President Xi pledged to send more cuddly bears to the US,...
The Conservative party is 25 points behind in the polls. Its backbenchers are scrambling around to find new jobs, and the opposition is already making...
Bill Gates was probably otherwise engaged. Mark Zuckerberg was busy in the metaverse. And Jeff Bezos was tied up on his next rocket trip. When the...
Shadow chancellor’s Rachel Reeves’s new book, The Women Who Made Modern Economics, was meant to put the spotlight on unsung female economists....