MARKETPLACE
May 2012
'New Labour's top brass doesn't live on council estates, but it might have the decency to check the impact its policies have had on the UK labour market'
Like this article? Share, save or print using the icons below
April 2012
‘What would have happened to Britain’s economy if the ECB’s Mario Draghi, rather than Mervyn King, had been governor of the Bank of England in 2007?’
Like this article? Share, save or print using the icons below
March 2012
‘The City of London, like all financial markets, does resemble a casino—but it is better to have a successful and productive casino here than to push it abroad’
Like this article? Share, save or print using the icons below
January/February 2012
'The eurozone shambles has been the worst setback for European integration since the 1940s'
Like this article? Share, save or print using the icons below
Marketplace
Standpoint's finance and economics column, written each month by Tim Congdon, a former advisor to the Treasury and the founder of Lombard Street Research
More Columns
More content
- Colour Me Angry
- Raymond Tallis
- New Verse
- Diplomatic Service
- Beyond Climate Hubris
- A Joy For Ever
- United States: The Path to Rome via San Francisco
- Political Judgements
- Unfamiliar Troubles
- The End of Europe's Fantasy is Now in Sight
- To Hell with Niceness
- The Pope Versus the Vatican
- Terry Eagleton
- Party Lines
- Compromising Situation
- A New World Order?
- Deliver Us
- Garbage In, Garbage Out
- Abolish the Author
- Lax on Tax
Popular Standpoint topics

















