Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from David Blanchflower

Are Rachel Reeves’s efforts to win business confidence ‘fiddling while Rome burns’?

Pro-growth charm offensive aimed at getting Labour back on the front foot has drawn concerns and questions

The Guardian - UK

I believed Starmer and Reeves were too smart to repeat austerity. It appears I was wrong

New governments usually come into power offering hope and a break with the past. This one is squandering the opportunity for a fresh start, says David Blanchflower

The Guardian - UK

Expert economists back Labour’s plan to end economic stagnation in UK

Nobel prize winners and former Bank of England officials believe Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer can bring about ‘desperately needed’ change

The Guardian - UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Slash interest rates and stop bond sales, ex-policymaker tells Bank of England

Exclusive: David Blanchflower urges rethink after collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and lifeline thrown to Credit Suisse

The Guardian - UK

The ‘leftwing economic establishment’ did not bring Liz Truss down. Reality did

The former PM’s confidence in her ‘small state’ formula remains undented. And her flailing party is all-too ready to share in the delusion, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on mass unemployment: inflation will drop without this pain

Editorial: Policymakers are wrong to think rising joblessness and a recession are a price worth paying

The Guardian - UK

The UK economy is about to be thrown into a black hole – by its own government

It fits the definition of madness to propose more austerity. But that, along with higher interest rates, is what’s coming, says Guardian economics editor Larry Elliott

The Guardian - UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Economists call for radical shakeup of Bank’s interest rate committee

MPC is dominated by people with little ‘real world’ knowledge and prone to groupthink, says ex-committee member

The Guardian - UK

Raising interest rates will cause more bankruptcies and redundancies, expert warns

The Bank of England is trying to use higher borrowing costs to cool runaway inflation - but the timing was slammed by ex-MPC member Professor Blanchflower, who said he would vote to cut rates instead

Daily Mirror

‘I can’t see it getting any better’: could the UK be heading for a recession?

Small business owners are already being hit as consumers cut back on non-essentials

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.