Ed Conway

70 years ago this month, John Maynard Keynes nearly died. It was about two thirds of the way through the Bretton Woods conference in New Hampshire. The delegates were within a whisker of agreeing upon a new deal on currencies and money which would, once and for all, repair the

Who is facing the biggest squeeze – public or private sector workers? The question arises today in particular because of the mass strikes from state workers over their remuneration. Their complaint is that they have received unfair pay over the past few years – most notably because there is a 1%-a-year

It’s tempting to glance at what the Bank of England has done today and say: “so what”? After all, on the face of it, the two primary measures unveiled by the Financial Policy Committee are hardly likely to make much difference to the UK housing story. Consider them in

I was perplexed to hear Joanna Shields, lately chief executive of Tech City, say the following this morning: “The latest recovery was really fuelled by Technology entrepreneur-led businesses. They have actually contributed whilst government and big business have either reduced jobs or limited the number of hirings. Entrepreneur-led businesses have

One of the many precautions taken by the War Office at the time of D-Day, Operation Overlord, was to impose a blanket ban on non-essential travel. At first it was slated to last seven days; later they contemplated extending it by another week or more. While this was perfectly sensible

The origin of the phrase “everything but the kitchen sink” goes back to the Second World War: so much metal was needed to fight the Nazis that households were encouraged to donate every metallic object in their homes – save for the porcelain in their kitchens. Today, as the commemorations of