UK

Global Economy

The rise and fall and rise of Jeremy Hunt

Hunt is a head boy: a dutiful and responsible lad who gets on with the teachers and tries to bring order to the school.

Global Economy

Truss faces whim of markets and mutinous UK MPs in key week

"You no longer hold the confidence of the country or the parliamentary party."

Global Economy

Where has all the liquidity gone?

We must ask what blame central banks bear for financial markets’ current fragility.

Global Economy

Liz Truss vs the Bank of England

The best way the government can stabilize the UK economy and fight inflation, however, is to reverse more of the planned tax cuts

Global Markets

By not being a slave to ideology, Singapore roars back in business with sense and sensibility

Singapore's ideology is neither left, nor right, but by being pragmatic to the point of being boring.
Truss drops tax cut for highest UK earners to fend off revolt - THE EDGE SINGAPORE

Global Economy

Truss drops tax cut for highest UK earners to fend off revolt

"We get it, and we have listened"

Global Economy

Truss says it was Kwarteng who decided to cut UK's top tax rate

Truss said her government should have “laid the ground better”

Currencies

Gilt chaos was made in UK but has lessons for everyone

"We're witnessing the further unravelling of the grand experiment of central banks over the past 15 years."

Global Economy

Pound bounces from record, traders turn sights to BOE

So far, there’s been silence from the government and the Bank of England.

Currencies

Pound drops to record low as UK signals more tax cuts

The size of the pound’s intra-day decline on Monday was the biggest since March 2020
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