Edmund Conway

It’s not every day you get one, let alone two, thumping big reports on the state of the UK economy. But today, Hallelujah, is one of those days. Earlier in the day we got the Institute for Fiscal Studies’ Green Budget. The short message was that the Chancellor has

There hasn’t been a massive amount of newspaper coverage about the LSE Growth Commission’s new report [http://www2.lse.ac.uk/researchAndExpertise/units/growthCommission/documents/pdf/LSEGC-Report.pdf] , which is perhaps unsurprising given that whereas many think tanks set out to shock with their reports, this one sets

[https://i0.wp.com/www.edmundconway.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/wpid-Photo-22-Jan-2013-1507.jpg?ssl=1] En route to Davos today I used to think that the toughest, most exacting job in the field of English language was to be a headline-writer at The Sun – after all, anyone who’s worked

Munich I'm in Munich today and tomorrow to cover the DLD conference, a kind of tech equivalent of Davos. Rather like the World Economic Forum it's a get-together of entrepreneurs, investors, a few academics and journalists – although this time around the focus is very specifically on

“We invest in college dropouts with insane ideas and no way to monetize them.” So said Ben Horowitz, legendary Silicon Valley investor in his talk here at DLD. And he was only half joking. His point was that the majority of successful technology entrepreneurs of the past decade or so

The Federal Reserve has just released a load of transcripts [http://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomchistorical2007.htm]of its meetings in 2007, the year the securitisation markets seized up and, on this side of the Atlantic, Northern Rock became Britain’s first bank collapse since Victorian times. The transcripts make