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Ed Conway

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How Wikileaks is copying 16th-century Amsterdam

First published in the Telegraph on 1 December 2010 There was a period when British MPs would spend their every night quivering at home in terror as they waited for the latest in the Telegraph’sexpenses revelations [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/]to break, hoping and praying

How the Tea Party is brewing up trouble for the world's currencies

When, decades in the future, historians write the definitive account of the great economic crisis of the early 21st century, the chances are they won’t waste too much ink on the G20 summit that just concluded in Seoul. Or will they? For the past few months, leaders from the

The Bank must reassure Britain it has not lost its grip on policy

First published in the Telegraph on 15 August 2010 What would you guess is the world’s most highly-geared financial institution? One of the lessons of the financial crisis – now gratifyingly drummed into most of us – is that if a bank tries to support a leviathan balance sheet atop a

The Bank must reassure Britain it has not lost its grip on policy

What would you guess is the world’s most highly-geared financial institution? One of the lessons of the financial crisis – now gratifyingly drummed into most of us – is that if a bank tries to support a leviathan balance sheet atop a tiny sliver of safe cash (shareholders’ capital) its prospects

West's recovery encounters hitch as harness slips off Chinese dragon

One of the stories Mervyn King likes to tell is of the moment it dawned on him that recovery from what he calls the Great Recession would be almost as difficult as dealing with the crisis itself. Sitting at a summit listening to his fellow central bankers and finance ministers

A triple whammy for the middle classes; Falling pensions, cuts and the banking crisis will impoverish many families, says Edmund Conway

First published in the Telegraph on 1 July 2010 You don’t usually expect radical neo-Marxism from the International Monetary Fund – the last great bastion of capitalism, spreading the gospel about the free market to the furthest reaches of the world. And yet, hidden away in an obscure IMF report

A kind of bye

First published in the Telegraph on 1 July 2010 Today is my final day in the Telegraph offices, where I’ve spent all but one year of my career since university. From later this month I will be back at university – at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, where