Category: Economics
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My first published letter – in the Wall Street Journal in May 2001
So it was titled – The Case for Keeping the Pound What a different world it was then – I forgot I did this and found it again recently. I think it stands up pretty well, except of course Rover isn’t with us anymore, the Bank of England doesn’t quite have the halo it used…
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Latest paper – based on a talk in Berlin last September 2012
I really enjoyed being in Berlin (or rather Potsdam) last September and presenting this paper to a conference organised by the excellent Friedrich-Naumann Stiftung Fuer die Freiheit – the think tank of the of German Liberal Democrat Party. And full marks to them for having an excellent url www.freiheit.org – i.e. freedom.org ! It’s not…
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Latest radio interview on ACR and website update coming
Dear all, forgive me for being a bit remiss in updating this website – I have been concentrating my efforts on www.economicpolicycentre.com, www.future-es.com and www.ukcrimestats.com Anyway, there are some changes coming shortly to www.danlewis.org because looking at it now, I realise quite a lot of it is out of date and I’m missing a large…
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Return of the Quangos . . .
To the news again ! Congratulations to the All Party Public Administration Select Committee led by Bernard Jenkin MP for producing a report. I haven’t seen it yet but the headlines that I have are basically correct – as I explained in the Yorkshire Post a few months ago, this was no bonfire. Speaking on…
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Regional and Regeneration policies share the same fallacies . . .
Writing in the Yorkshire Post today, I described what was wrong with typical regional policy and how to do it much better. I suggested doing effective, boring and unpopular stuff like moving workers to the work (not the other way round) with more low cost roads and buses and paying lower wages and benefits in…
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UK Gas supplies – the pace and focus of change is far from enough
In the last 10 days, we’ve had a surprising amount of news about gas that requires some digestion. Starting with yesterday’s discovery of shale gas near Blackpool by Cuadrilla Resources – the best news that town has had in a long time. Then there’s the ongoing cold snap in the UK combined with a long…
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A couple new posts on the Chinese Yuan debate and Plug-in Hybrids
Ok, I need to update this site a bit more often. I’ve just written two posts. One for the Economic Policy Centre blog on the brewing China/USA dispute over trade and currency valuations and another for Future Energy Strategies blog on the great potential and thus far unanticipated outcomes of plug-in hybrids. Enjoy !
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Yes, we need Aircraft Carriers and Trident
In the ideal world, everyone would share and practice our values of Liberal Democracy or at least feel unthreatened by them and in no way want to undermine our freedom. Unfortunately, only perhaps 1 billion people of this planet’s 6.8 billion live under liberal democracy, a billion more in India have elective government which is…
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The Feed-In-Tariffs – finally revealed today
Ok, here they are. I have to say, they look pretty generous to me. I’m going to do some back of the envelope calculations and come back with a new table that shows the yield per technology. As I wrote recently in Utility Week, if we really do get a boom in micro-generation from the…