One of the many important issues facing the new PM is how to address challenges in the housing market, including helping ensure more of Generation Rent can become Generation Buy. In a 35-page paper I argue more needs to be done “to turn Generation Rent into Generation Buy”. Increasing housing...

I was on the LBC Money podcast discuss everything from what can the Bank of England do about inflation to the visit of Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan. Listen here.

It was good to be on Sky News discussing the UK economic climate, whether an emergency Budget is needed and what policy options are available to the next PM.

Good to be on Newsnight again tonight. Today’s forecast show clearly that we face both an inflation problem and an economic slowdown with weak domestic demand. It is the weak domestic demand that justifies the policies of Liz Truss. Watch here.

I was interviewed on the PM programme about tax cuts and inflation. Tax cuts and interest rates are not opposite ends of the same seesaw. The nature of our inflation shock and prospect of weaker domestic demand (BoE expects 3.75% of econ slack at the end of 3-year period) adds to the case to act...

Episode One: The Edinburgh Fringe https://open.spotify.com/show/1WSxgltafzBRMCGUvkOdww

Below is the top-line summary of my media coverage for July 2022. I was quoted in The Telegraph - 31st July - on how the Treasury has too much influence on the Bank of England and how the Bank lacks diversity of thought. I wrote an op-ed for The Express - 30th July - on why Liz Truss' economic...

This article was first published in The Express – 29th July 2022. While the two candidates vying to be the next Prime Minister - Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak - agree on many things, they have a major difference of opinion about the economy and tax. Rishi is cautious. He wants to keep policy tight and...

This letter was first published in The Telegraph on 25th July 2022 - I signed it alongside six other economists. The Telegraph also reported more broadly on the letter.

It was good to be on BBC World at One with Sarah Montague again discussing why targeted and timely tax cuts aren’t inflationary. We face twin problems of high inflation and weakening domestic demand. We need tighter monetary policy to address inflation and a looser fiscal cuts to address weakening...