Edmund Conway



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Full name: Edmund Conway

Area of interest: Economics

Journals: The Daily Telegraph

Email: [mailto:edmund.conway@telegraph.co.uk edmund.conway@telegraph.co.uk]

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Career: Joined The Daily Telegraph in 2002, became economics editor in 2006 - as well as economic commentary has written 'word on the street' column since May 2006
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Awards/Honours: Telegraph's Economics Editor wins award - Edmund Conway, The Daily Telegraph's Economics Editor was named Reporter of the Year at the 23rd Workworld Media Awards on Tuesday - 20th January 2010

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Latest work: 50 Economics Ideas (you really need to know) - a guide to understanding economics for everyone

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 * previously, major contributor to the Word-on-the-street property column (archive)



Selected articles: 2011

 * political system isn’t quirky, it’s dangerous'' - The US economy is close to default, yet the parties are still playing silly games - 14th July
 * Germany must exit the euro'' - Germany - not Greece - has 'destabilised the euro area and is one of the biggest road-blocks to its ultimate recovery - 18th June
 * Greek bail-out: what’s going on?'' - country needs another huge bail-out. The impact on the euro and Britain could be enormous - 17th June



Articles: 2010

 * the Tea Party is brewing up trouble for the world’s currencies'' - When, decades in the future, historians write the definitive account of the great economic crisis of the early 21st century, the chances are they won’t waste too much ink on the G20 summit that just concluded in Seoul. Or will they? - 14th November
 * Tony Blair, then Gordon Brown. What has poor old Harvard done to deserve this?'' - Edmund Conway reports from Cambridge, Massachusetts, on a haunting visit from his past - 18th September
 * Bank must reassure Britain it has not lost its grip on policy'' - What would you guess is the world's most highly-geared financial institution? - 15th August
 * recovery mission encounters hitch as harness slips off Chinese dragon'' - One of the stories Mervyn King likes to tell is of the moment it dawned on him that recovery from what he calls the Great Recession would be almost as difficult as dealing with the crisis itself - 8th August
 * class families face a triple whammy'' - Falling pensions, cuts and the banking crisis will impoverish many families - 1st July
 * 2010: Will Britain be a world-beater or an economic also-ran?'' - George Osborne has a unique opportunity to make the economy a global contender again - 17th June
 * Cameron can't afford to be caught napping in Brussels'' - David Cameron will have to be on his guard at his first European summit - 10th June
 * spending cuts: a little more nasty talk may yet be in order'' - We Britons love it when our government talks nasty to us. If you don't believe me, consult the history books - 9th June
 * gamblers betting on Britain going bust'' - Hedge funds are wagering billions on the UK defaulting - 5th June
 * gains tax: tories tried to pluck the goose, but ended up with a turkey'' - Lifting the rate so sharply overnight could do more harm than good for both families and businesses - 28th May
 * Europe heading for a meltdown?'' - This financial crisis is worse than the sub-prime crash of 2008 because the sums are so much bigger and it is governments that are in dire straits - 27th May
 * the drama in Europe lies a global crisis'' - The euro is under threat – along with our entire free-market system - 20th May
 * Election 2010: We don't have to go up in flames like Greece'' - five suggestions for the incoming Chancellor - 6th May (General Election 2010)
 * to Ashes'' - The Greek horror story should scare us all, says Edmund Conway. Its problems are not unique - 29th April
 * Election 2010: tell us where the axe will fall'' - You don’t have to look too far these days for vivid examples of what happens when you really lose control of your public finances- 29th April
 * Election 2010: What the would-be chancellors haven't said'' - You can't have a prosperous economy in which an overindebted government is twinned with an overindebted private sector - 22nd April
 * debt: the horror story has only one ending'' - Solving the crisis in Greece will involve an enormous amount of pain, which Britain will share- 15th April
 * financial proposals do not go far enough'' - The Tories are so terrified of throwing out the status quo that they will not attempt the fiscal reform that is drastically needed - 8th April
 * bankers of their responsibilities would be better than regulation'' - One of the ways in which banks have been tightening their lending conditions on small businesses is to refuse to lend out cash unless the directors make themselves jointly and severally liable for the loans - 2nd April
 * banks need far more taxing treatment'' - We have a once in a lifetime opportunity to restore the financial system to health - 1st April
 * 2010: City's verdict was swift and damning'' - The economists will be poring over this Budget for weeks, but it took all of two minutes for the markets to make up their minds - 25th March
 * about a Budget with a bit of honesty?'' - This is what the Chancellor should say in his Budget speech next week - 18th March
 * have to learn from Japan's lost years'' - The turbulence in the currency markets is a welcome warning sign - 4th March
 * must arm ourselves for a class war'' - The recession has increased the wealth gap to dangerous levels, and George Osborne does not seem serious about tackling it - 25th February
 * panic about inflation - that can wait'' - Recessionary forces are still the biggest problem facing Britain -18th February
 * aging population is a bigger economic threat than the financial crisis'' - Just when you thought it was safe to come out into the open. As if it weren't enough that the euro is crumbling, that the banking sector is still vulnerable; that Britain is steeling itself for its biggest spending squeeze in living memory, along comes Barclays Capital with some really bad news - 12th February
 * could bring euroland to its knees'' - The architects of economic union failed to recognise its Achilles' heel - 11th February
 * but for the grace of God goes Britain'' - Should markets pass the same verdict on Britain as on Greece, the results would be almost identical - and just as disastrous - 4th February
 * year James Cameron helped Davos learn to laugh at itself'' - This was the year, to judge by reaction to the Avatar film director's presentation, when Davos learnt to laugh at itself - 30th January (Davos)
 * 2010: How to buy friends and influence people'' - Lavish spending on lobbying is behind the banks' successful fight against reform - 28th January
 * of England independence is a cause of immense frustration for Gordon Brown'' - Mervyn King's latest criticism of the handling of the recession was a body blow to the PM - 21st January
 * a jubilee be the answer to our prayers?'' - Wiping the fiscal slate clean is a tempting but self-defeating option - 14th January
 * reality lies buried beneath a stream of meaningless pre-election statistics'' - And so it begins. Were anyone in doubt that the next election will be fought on an economic battleground, against a shifting background of baffling and contradictory statistics, they have not had to wait for long for the rude awakening - 6th January
 * 2010 sovereign debt crisis could still cause UK banking chaos'' - Last year was one of the easiest for economic predictions. In the wake of Lehman's collapse, and the semi-nationalisation of the world's banking system, at least a few things seemed obvious - 4th January



Articles: 2009

 * 'experts' who stopped making sense'' - Why, despite the financial crisis, do we still put our faith in economists - 31st December
 * dreaming of a cashless Christmas'' - we should have nothing to fear about giving up those grubby notes and coins - 24th December
 * only one escape from our debt trap'' - Britain's historic strategy of letting inflation rip will simply not work - 17th December
 * report: After Brown's Fantasy Budget of 2007 it's time for Britain's hairshirt'' - If you were after proof of how wrong Gordon Brown and the Treasury got the economy, you could hardly do better than digging out Budget 2007 - 9th December
 * deal at the Doha Round that really could save the world'' - The focus on climate change has driven attention away from a far more vital issue - 4th December
 * deal on trade that really could save the world'' - The focus on climate change has driven attention away from a far more vital issue - 3rd December
 * news - Britain still makes things'' - Our much-mocked manufacturing sector is stronger than we think - 26th November
 * economic miracle is a fragile one'' - the country's leaders risk creating the same type of asset bubble that floored Japan - 12th November
 * black gold is dragging us into the red'' - Oil wealth was the secret saviour of the economy, but no longer - 5th November
 * social timebomb is set to explode in Britain'' - The true jobless total is already over five million – and the young are hardest hit - 29th October
 * is changing but we don't have a map'' - Even Mervyn King admits we have yet to work out how we will run our economy in the future - 22nd October
 * return of the bonus bonanza for bankers'' - A year ago, the financial system was in meltdown and bankers were the villains of the piece. So how can it be that Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan now have billions to pay out in salaries and bonuses? - 16th October
 * bad will spending cuts get? Take a look at Latvia'' - Britain will not escape the savage spending cuts seen elsewhere in Europe - 15th October
 * can still be a power in a changing world'' - This country's international influence must survive our decline as an economic power - 9th October
 * inconvenient truth: financial crises are inevitable'' - The IMF's new early warning system is doomed to disappoint - 1st October
 * are entering a new age of protectionism'' - The 21st-century form of protectionism is no less deadly than its 1930s predecessor - just less visible - 24th September
 * remains the Bank's secret weapon in times of turmoil'' - It is déjà vu all over again. The pound has fallen by 5pc since the start of August, and despite a slight recovery, currency analysts are predicting that it will soon hit parity against the euro - 23rd September
 * Osborne’s secret weapon to cut the deficit'' - The shadow chancellor can succeed where others failed - 9th September
 * case for borrowing is born out of the Great Depression'' - At the core of Keynesian economics is the idea that fiscal policy (government taxing and spending) should be used as a tool to control an economy - 3rd September
 * and bust capitalism won't be fixed'' - Finance ministers are now simply papering over cracks having squandered the opportunity to make real changes to the way the world economy works - 3rd September
 * easing beginning to show in M4'' - The Bank of England has produced the first apparent statistical evidence that its programme of quantitative easing may now be successfully boosting the amount of money flowing around the economy - 1st September
 * inflation opinions are failing'' - If it is a misfortune to get one forecast wrong, and carelessness to mess up two, what word does one use when someone gets a staggering 12 wrong? - 19th August
 * to save the economy and make a fortune – set up a bank'' - Smashing open the system should be a priority for Whitehall and the City - 19th August
 * King tells a puzzled City: 'It's the levels stupid''' - If there's one thing that really infuriates the City, it is Mervyn King's attitude when it transpires that the Bank of England has wrongfooted the markets - 15th August
 * empty crisp bag that shows how Britain is beating recession'' - Isaac Newton's epiphany came courtesy of an apple; mine was down to an empty packet of crisps - 13th August
 * Beware - our sins may return to haunt us - Don't be duped into believing this credit crunch is over - 6th August
 * after the next election will be key'' - For those who assumed that the ratings agencies never really knew what they were talking about, yesterday was something of a field day - 1st August
 * crisis, and a crisis for economics'' - The financial meltdown has forced 'the dismal science' of economics to go back to basics - 30th July
 * UK economy is still too sick to throw away its QE prescription'' - Officially the Bank of England's quantitative easing programme still has at least another week and a bit to run, although to judge from the behaviour of the gilt markets and the comments of economists, you'd be forgiven for thinking the bold move is all but over - 29th July
 * recession for the many, not the few'' - Despite the worry over middle-class job losses, it is the poorest who are suffering most - 23rd July
 * thinking needed on debt'' - Debt WILL be our legacy. Much of it that caused the credit crisis has yet to be written off and a lot of it is underwritten by taxpayers, be it bank or government liabilities - 14th July
 * recovery comes, it won't feel like one'' - The end of the recession will merely be the start of a long, painful journey - 9th July
 * tax revenues are about to balloon our budget deficit'' - Shadow-boxing between Gordon Brown and David Cameron skirts over the big issue - 2nd July
 * Englishman doesn't have to own his castle'' - The house-price bubble should have taught us a lesson - 25th June
 * truths in the banqueting hall'' - The banks aren't being fixed – and Mervyn King knows who's to blame - 19th June
 * recession may be over but the pain has just begun'' - Debt – public and private – could still be our undoing - 11th June
 * still waiting for a banking shake-up'' - So far, the punishment meted out to the banking sector does not fit the crime - 4th June
 * crisis is an opportunity – this time it's the chance to spend less'' - Since the earliest days of civilisation humanity has been fascinated with the notion that out of trauma, disaster and hardship, great things can come - 29th May
 * crisis: Only a new Bretton Woods will solve it'' - Trying to save the world economy with new regulations and codes of practice is like trying to cure a cancer patient with plastic surgery - 29th May
 * crisis: We must mend our ways, not make more rules'' - We are all ultimately to blame for economic crises - 28th May
 * strangely serene despite our worrying similarities to Zimbabwe'' - To the casual observer this hardly seems the most relaxing time to be Governor of the Bank of England - 14th May
 * take a ride on the cash carousel'' - Bankers are making millions from the latest financial policy - 14th May
 * we pay for pensions without working until we drop?'' - The ticking of the pensions timebomb is deafening. Could radical reform of the welfare system and a rising birth rate spare us - 7th May
 * sector pensions must be tackled for the sake of the economy'' - It is hard not to feel for Alistair Darling. He is faced with the most insurmountable task since Tony Blair asked the intelligence services whether they could possibly lay their hands on some Iraqi WMD - 30th April
 * Obama can't trust to luck to fix the economy'' - Barack Obama needs to be much more decisive if he is going to extricate America from the vicious circle of this financial crisis - 30th April
 * pregnancy may be the answer to our mountain of debt'' - If you were looking for scary economic charts you could hardly do worse than dig out the one showing Britain’s national debt going back to the 19th century - 25th April
 * 2009: It was the day Labour hoisted the red flag'' - The markets were appalled at Alistair Darling's borrowing plans - they will charge Britain a lot more for our debt - 23rd April
 * not forget that even the Great Depression had green shoots'' - We will repeat the 1930s if we stop the stimulus too soon - 9th April
 * President Obama managed to unlock the G20 Summit'' - The US president's can-do spirit helped to transform the G20 meeting from a weary round of re-announced initiatives into the beginnings of a dynamic response - 6th April
 * Summit: an easy guide to judge its success or failure'' - Leaders are likely to declare the G20 summit a triumph today, but what will that mean? - 2nd April
 * time to call a halt, Prime Minister'' - Mervyn King was right to attack the Prime Minister's economic plans in advance of the G20 summit - 26th March
 * Brown's profligacy blocks job creation'' - "Unemployment when young creates permanent scars, not temporary blemishes." So said the Bank of England's David Blanchflower on Monday - 24th March
 * the gloom is a shining opportunity'' - Getting it right: in the second of a series of articles on what a Conservative future will hold, Edmund Conway argues for public sector cuts - 19th March
 * of finance ministers' summit'' - Trying to unpick the dynamics of an international summit in the hours and days after it finishes is no easy task - 16th March
 * is how depression looked in the 1930s'' - Recession Britain: Like Herbert Hoover, today's politicians are posing rather than acting - 12th March
 * not yet at the moment of maximum pessimism in this economic crisis'' - The old adage is that buying shares in a falling market is rather like trying to catch a falling knife - 11th March
 * ministers set for clash over economic crisis solutions'' - Ministers from the US and Europe are preparing for a major clash later this week as they wrestle over the agenda for the G20 summit which aims to hatch a solution for the economic crisis - 10th March
 * Bank of England's printing presses are ready to roll'' - The big question is whether the extra cash will actually be spent - 5th March 2009
 * doom and gloom isn't over yet'' - Britons need to face up to its excesses over the previous decade - 26th February 2009
 * bad – but it's worse for everyone else'' - Britain will not be bear the brunt of the economic crisis - 19th February 2009
 * just how bad will the recession be?'' - Ed Balls says Britain faces its worst recession for 100 years, it's hard to disagree - 11th February 2009
 * the rise of protectionism'' - There are a few stock images of protectionism which most of us have in our heads - 28th January 2009
 * really wrong with Sterling?'' - The pound is suffering its worst ever fall in value. Why is it happening and what are the implications? - 24th January 2009
 * we do when interest rates fail'' - Mervyn King sets out the future for monetary policy - 21st January 2009
 * and blue Monday leaves UK banks staring at nationalisation'' - So that was Blue Monday. The most depressing day of the year, according to scientists - 20th January 2009
 * rescue measures might just be working'' - Desperate measures to deal with the financial crisis are the only way to avoid a prolonged recession - 9th January 2009
 * is partly to blame for the recession'' - Daddy, what did you do in the credit crunch? As we sit around the embers of the financial system it is time I got something off my chest: I must take some responsibility for the economic crisis - 5th January 2009
 * for the sequel to the UK bank bail-out'' - One might have hoped for some good news on the first working day of the New Year - 3rd January 2009



Articles:

 * of England's stability warnings were swamped by the market's tide of greed'' - 24th December 2008
 * crisis: Free money coming your way!'' - The crisis is so bad that governments are ready to print money to stop the economy seizing up - 18th December 2008
 * bank rescue plan is just not enough'' - WHAT? "Additional measures"? So cutting interests to the lowest level since 1951, pouring billions into the banking system and slashing VAT was not enough? - 17th December 2008
 * Bank may have to print you a pocketful of cash to spend'' - We are about to enter a weird, parallel universe for monetary policy - 14th December 2008
 * own 'crass' economic policies are the most dangerous threat'' - No doubt about it, there is something wincingly crass about Gordon Brown. His Freudian slip on Wednesday betrayed his conviction that he is single-handedly "saving the world" - 12th December 2008
 * Keynesian dare Alistair Darling be?'' - 30th October 2008
 * Mervyn King have to scare markets?'' - Economists query whether Bank chief's recession warning had to be so stark - 23rd October 2008
 * slump since Great Depression'' - Major industrialised economies will suffer the worst slump since the 1930s, according to new research from Deutsche Bank - 20th October 2008
 * crisis: Has the £2 trillion financial bail-out package failed?'' - 17th October 2008
 * shows we were too slow to fix world's debt addiction'' - Imagine a hospital where doctors try as hard as they can to ignore a patient’s symptoms - 16th October 2008
 * at the end of the tunnel?'' - For the first time in weeks, if not months, the markets have had an adrenaline shot of confidence - 14th October 2008
 * for the markets to open'' - It is a fitting, nail-biting end to the most fraught month of financial trauma on record - 12th October 2008
 * of England goes nuclear with interest rate cut'' - Having tried almost every other weapon in its arsenal to tackle the credit crunch, today the Bank of England has gone nuclear - 9th October 2008
 * Brown must grasp the nettle of the financial crisis'' - Here they come - the credit crunch cavalry; here to sweep us away from all this economic misery. In they waft from the five-star hotels and embassies of Washington, carried aloft on a ribbon of dry ice and dollar bills - 5th October 2008
 * crisis: Western world will become significantly less wealthy'' - Corporate America has just lost a chunk of its value the size of the Indian economy - 30th September 2008
 * our very own Great Depression'' - Britain survived the slump after the Wall Street Crash quite easily: this time it may be different - 27th September 2008
 * needs a US-style financial system bail-out'' - 26th September 2008
 * dollar set to be major casualty of bailout'' - Dollar's long-term status as a reserve currency will come under new pressure from bailout - 22nd September 2008
 * Gordon Brown living on borrowed time?'' - With recession looming and the Government sinking, Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling have launched a rescue plan for the housing market. But will it work? - Telegraph.co.uk - Wednesday 3rd September 2008 (with Andrew Porter)



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