Fair and balanced

Read my latest OUP blog post on the importance of independent, objective policy analysis   here.

Scottish independence

Scotland is having a referendum on September 18 on whether it should become independent from the United Kingdom.  Economically, this is a bad idea.  Read my latest OUP blog post on the subject here.

WRONG tour heads back to New York

I’ll be speaking about WRONG in Bryant Park (behind the New York Public Library in midtown Manhattan, between 40th and 42nd Streets & Fifth and Sixth Avenues) on Tuesday, July 1 from 12.30 to 1:45 pm.  The event is sponsored by HSBC and is part of their Word for Word series.  Details can be found … Read more

Timothy Geithner just quoted me…..well, sort of

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Cited in Ozy.com/USA Today

See Steve Bulter’s piece “Central bankers roam the globe making deals” on Ozy.com, carried by USA Today, which quotes my work on foreign central bank chiefs.