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Ed Conway

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Back from the dead - but watch out for zombies Debt - public and private - could still be our undoing

First published in the Telegraph on 11 June 2009 In their unguarded moments, policymakers at the Bank of England and the Treasury like to compare themselves to MI5. The tools of the trade may be different – interest rates and taxes, rather than wires and guns – but the purpose is the

We're still waiting for a banking shake-up So far, the punishment does not fit the crime

First published in the Telegraph on 4 June 2009 At first glance, the expenses scandal is a crisis with plenty of losers and no winners. It undermines politicians, the country’s constitutional framework and the foundations that have historically made Britain a great place for people to invest. But one

Only a new Bretton Woods will solve this crisis

28 May 2009 Earlier this week, a group of America’s most intelligent and influential thinkers published a report heralded as the definitive solution to the financial crisis. The Committee on Capital Markets Regulation’s study is getting on for 300 pages, so let me give you the gist: we

We'll have to work until we drop

First published in the Telegraph on 7 May 2009 When she died six years ago, there was little on the face of it to distinguish Gertrude Janeway from any other elderly American. Bedridden for the best part of a decade, the 93-year-old from Tennessee spent her final days contemplating her

Trusting to luck isn't going to help Obama

First published in the Telegraph on 30 April 2009 Barack Obama is a pretty superstitious guy. During the marathon presidential campaign, he made a routine of playing basketball on each of the various polling days, and carried with him a pocketful of lucky trinkets, including a poker chip and a

Our borrowing would pay for a world war

First published in the Telegraph on 23 April 2009 There is a long-observed tradition in the Treasury on Budget Day: civil servants, economists and advisers leave their desks, file downstairs and watch the Chancellor deliver his speech on the big screens in the canteen. The atmosphere is usually pretty festive

Even the Great Depression had green shoots We will repeat the 1930s if we stop the stimulus too soon

First published in the Telegraph on 9 April 2009 What does a Great Depression feel like? Everyone has seen the pictures of the breadlines and the starving families in the American Dust Bowl; everyone knows about the deprivation, the suicides and the despondency. Today doesn’t feel like the 1930s.