US Economic Policy

Following the US election we are likely to see a large fiscal stimulus. This has support from many Republicans and many Democrats, but in each case it is based on a different set of expectations. Both groups hope that fiscal stimulus will pay for itself through...

Getting the economy going

Intercontinental Finance, Issue 127/14, 1st September 2014 Invest in management incentives and secular stagnation The last financial crisis, like those which followed the 1929 crash in the US and 1989 crash in Japan, was caused by excess debt, with the trigger...

Remuneration – It’s Broke, So Fix It

Executive Compensation Briefing – Vol. 11. No. 2 March 2014 [ISSN 1743-7113], 1st March 2014 Adam Smith taught us that some qualities of individuals that are not necessarily admirable, such as greed, can nonetheless have beneficial outcomes for the economy as a...