Ed Conway

One of the reasons London house prices have risen so sharply in the last few years, both in absolute terms and in comparison with the rest of the country, is the enormous appetite of foreign investors. And in part, this has been reinforced by the fact that the pound fell

The Chancellor, George Osborne, is making a speech this morning about Europe. In it, he urges the continent to reform economically, with a specific warning about its level of social welfare spending. “Europe,” he says, “accounts for just over 7% of the world’s population, 25% of its economy, and

I’m going to let you in on a little trade secret. Most of the analysis and reaction to a Bank of England rate decision is pre-written hours, sometimes days, ahead of the announcement itself. An economist will write some paragraphs in case of various different eventualities – a rate hike,

You might have been a little surprised to have heard the tone of the Chancellor’s inaugural 2014 speech today [https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/new-year-economy-speech-by-the-chancellor-of-the-exchequer] . After all, the UK economy is powering towards a recovery – the most convincing one since the onset of the crisis. The deficit is

Given everyone, even the London Review of Books [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n01/james-meek/where-will-we-live], is now talking about Britain’s housing crisis, it’s striking that no-one seems to have picked up on one of the elements of newly-released Cabinet papers this morning. The hitherto secret papers,

[https://i2.wp.com/www.edmundconway.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/xmascover.jpg?ssl=1] For each of the past few Christmases I’ve been putting together a mix of some of the best songs I’ve heard in the previous year. Here is this year’s selection. Hope you