Amusing - and revealing - take on the FTSE100 finally achieving a record high. But not as measured in dollars and euros ft.com/content/7e074d… via @ft

Truss is totally obsessed with Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England, who she paints in her book as the chief villain her downfall + the very epitome of 'deep state Britain'. But it turns out she's never even met him, nor even asked to meet him while it was all going on.

I'm intrigued by the suggestion in this article that China is deliberately suppressing rare earth prices so as to undermine Western attempts to develop alternatives its its current chokehold. It's denied, obviously, but eminently believable ft.com/content/37966c… via @ft

Unfortunately, Truss's interventions serve not to enliven debate on how to enhance growth, but only to highlight what a mess the Tory Party is in. The divisions are so great it's scarcely a party at all any longer. My column telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…

Good piece, but I think Ross draws the wrong conclusion here. Yes, the price of EVs are tumbling to meet quotas, but manufacturers will seek to offset losses by increasing the price of traditional ICE cars. The upshot - more expensive autos all round telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/2…

The International Monetary Fund is still forecasting a soft landing, despite sticky inflation and rising geopolitical tension. Don't bank on it. My column telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…

If Downing Street was banking on a sustained fall in interest rates to save its electoral bacon, it will need to think again. My column on the return of higher for longer rates telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…

For now, it's perfectly logical for people to opt for petrol cars over electric. It's not just the difference in price, but net zero targets for auto manufacturers will make petrol cars increasingly scarce. Buy now, before you can't. telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…

Despite being severely hit by the pandemic and other following crises, Italy has been recovering fast, even faster than its major peers, but has to face its greatest weakness: a lack of political stability and policy certainty, which are vital constituents of any healthy economy.

Why this is not 'worst economic inheritance since the Second World War'. My column telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…

More egalitarian nonsense by the Resolution Foundation. There has to be some incentive to save, and by definition, the better off are much more likely to do it. telegraph.co.uk/money/investin…

If China chooses to sell its solar panels to the UK at uneconomic prices, it's their loss and our gain. Or why Britain should not be following Europe into swingeing tariff and anti-dumping measure. My column telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…

Baby boomers have paid in less and taken out more from the welfare state “than any generation before or since”, says the Economist. I'd like to see the numbers on this, because it seems unlikely to be true in regard to the 'paid in less' claim.

'We seem to have become Italy ourselves, only without the sun and la dolce vita; the stability and predictability for which the UK used to be known has given way to the same sense of chaos and confusion that used to be the Italian hallmark'. My column telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…

Nationalisation of Thames Water may be what the public want, but it's not the answer. My column
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Very very VERY proud dad moment. Ruby and her brilliant team-mates go in the Oxford lightweights vs Cambridge at 1414 today. To say I am a jangle of emotions would be an understatement. MON OXFORD!

This is good on the downfall of GEC/Marconi. On the death of Lord Weinstock, who ran GEC with an iron hand for more than thirty years, Lord Hanson remarked that he had died of a broken heart, watching his lifetime's work going down in flames
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Surge, or dynamic, pricing is just energy rationing by another name. My column on the latest very bad idea from the energy regulator Ofgem telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…

Demographics will undermine Xi Jinping's hopes of economic hegemony long before they can ever be realised. Threat posed by China to the West is much exaggerated. An exert from my Economic Intelligence newsletter telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…

We have a baby bust in the West, but a baby boom in large parts of the third and developing world. This spells big trouble. My column telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…