The politics, economics and tech. We inhabit a world where a distorted perception persists regarding the relationship between the value and expense of initiatives aimed at addressing climate change. Without proactive measures, regardless of their associated costs, we face the ominous spectre of...
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Hurricane Ida threatens global plastic markets
(By the time this article is published, Hurricane Ida will have made landfall and the aftermath will be already under assessment. One hopes, as always, that the damage is minimal...
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The cuts to housing benefits
They led to over 75,000 more overcrowded households during the pandemic. Covid-19 has been described as a 'housing disease'. Overcrowded living conditions make it easier for the...
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Consumer borrowing was heavily restricted in the 1940s to curb inflation
It’s time we did it again. There has been much talk about a potential inflation surge as countries lift pandemic restrictions and seek to resume normal economic activity. In...
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Stakeholders v stockholders
The notion that stakeholders and stockholders battle for control of major business corporations is an oversimplification of a much more complex reality involving managers,...
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Home working biggest threat to gateway office markets
Post-Covid work patterns will have a significant effect going forward in Europe. During the Covid-19 lockdowns, the share of office employees working some time or usually from...
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Economics explains the Taliban’s rapid advances
In mid-April 2021, President Biden declared an imminent and rapid withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan based upon a timeline handed down from the previous...
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Is mean reversion still valid?
The Director, Real Estate Research Centre, The Business School (formerly Cass) looks for an answer. The two most common phrases at the moment are: 1) “Can industrial yields...
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Plagues and classical history
What the humanities will tell us about Covid in years to come. After almost two years – and an extraordinary global hiatus whose impact remains as yet unclear – it is...
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Nixon’s gold treachery made me a cynic
Fifty years ago, on 15 August 1971, President Richard Nixon announced that the US government would cease honouring its pledge to pay gold to redeem the dollars held by foreign...