Articles

12.12.16 Publication: Prospect Magazine

The long, slow fuse on Italy’s time-bomb has been lit. The crushing defeat of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s constitutional reform proposals in the national...

06.12.16

Phillip Hammond, the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, is often depicted as dull and sombre but at November's Autumn Statement he was positively chipper. ...

30.11.16 Publication: Financial Times

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25.11.16

 The freeing up of trade, which has been the single biggest source of Western prosperity since 1945 and of global growth since the late 1970s, is taking quite...

24.11.16

Anger is, by common consent, the most important emotion among citizens in the West. At least, that is the popular conclusion being drawn from the Brexit...

21.11.16

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18.11.16 Publication: Prospect Magazine

A time-bomb is ticking away in the heart of Europe, carrying a label marked “Made in Italy.” It could yet be defused. But if it goes off, it would make...

17.11.16 Publication: Financial Times

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16.11.16

By Tom Startup   Was it the economy that won it?   On the face of it, it wasn’t immediate economic woes that pushed Donald Trump into the White...

09.11.16 Publication: La Stampa

President Vladimir Putin must be a happy man: in January he will have  America’s version of Silvio Berlusconi as his counterpart in the White House. He had...

09.11.16 Publication: CAPX

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08.11.16

If policy was rational and electorates understood the consequences fully for their taxes, no advanced, developed country would have a retirement age for public...

27.10.16

By Tom Startup Falling government bond yields and rising prices have been with us for so long that it has come with a shock: since the Brexit vote on June...

23.10.16 Publication: Nikkei Business

On October 1st, the only government economic policy measure this year that is likely to boost the Japanese economy came into effect. It is positive, but was...

20.10.16 Publication: La Stampa

Most of President Barack Obama´s foreign policy has had to be reactive to inherited wars, to new civil wars, to new sources of pressure and instability. But...

20.10.16 Publication: La Stampa

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12.10.16 Publication: CAPX

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18.05.16 Publication: La Stampa

To vote to impeach a president is, in any country, a kind of political nuclear weapon: it should be a very last resort, for such an extreme act can have...

18.05.16 Publication: La Stampa

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13.05.16 Publication: Project Syndicate

LONDON – As America’s friends and allies look on in astonishment at the all-but-certain prospect of a contest between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in...

09.05.16 Publication: Nikkei Business

Here is a good principle when thinking about the US presidential election in November of this year: hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. It is...

24.03.16 Publication: La Stampa

After terrorist atrocities such as those in Brussels yesterday or in Paris in January and November last year, the political pressure to react, to act, to fight...

24.03.16 Publication: La Stampa

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21.03.16 Publication: Nikkei Business

Are you expecting Tokyo´s Olympic Games in 2020 to bring a big economic benefit to the nation? Plenty of people seem to be hoping that it will bring such a...