Ed Conway

Though it tends to get rather overlooked on Budget day, the Office for Budget Responsibility’s Economic and Fiscal Outlook report [http://cdn.budgetresponsibility.org.uk/37839-OBR-Cm-8820-accessible-web-v2.pdf] really is a mine of excellent data. All the more interesting because it represents the official “in-house view” that informs the Treasury’

As I watch everyone frothing with excitement over the Chancellor’s reforms to the pensions industry, I can’t help but be reminded of the Gramm-Leach Act of 1999 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramm%E2%80%93Leach%E2%80%93Bliley_Act]. Like George Osborne’s pensions reforms yesterday, this

I should preface this piece by warning you that if you’re after a considered analysis of the pros and cons of the Bank of England’s new core strategic goals [http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Pages/news/2014/058.aspx], you are probably in the wrong place. Consider

I can’t remember another Budget in recent memory which has been so little leaked ahead of the day itself. There have been one or two measures dribbling their way onto the front pages in recent days, but far fewer than in recent years. That means one of two things:

For the Bank of England, today was at least partly about showing that it is transparent and straightforward. After all, it has taken on new far-reaching powers which make it the most important public sector body outside Westminster. It has come under fire for introducing not one but two new

Curious about specifically what kinds of trade sanctions (as opposed to financial sanctions, which I covered in more depth here [https://www.edmundconway.com/2014/03/how-britain-became-russias-banker-of-choice-and-what-that-means-for-sanctions/] ) might cause most harm to Russia? In other words, what does Russia most rely on from overseas, whether in terms of imports sucked