Allister Heath



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 * Switzerland was once a safe haven. That is no longer true today - There is a big lesson in the Swiss National Bank's decision to ditch the euro-franc peg - central banks are arbitrary and capricious - 16th January 2015
 * Why we can now be sure that interest rates won’t go up this year - The Government clearly would like to keep interest rates low as possible for as long as possible, even though many of its supporters are net savers who are losing out - 11th January 2015
 * Russia’s economic crisis could easily end in yet another sovereign default - Vladimir Putin's Russia is stuck between a rock and a hard place and its economy could be pushed into a recession deeper than the one seen in 1998 - 18th December 2014
 * It’s time for Osborne to explain why lower taxes are so good for growth - Changing tax rates also has an effect on incentives to work, invest, consume and transact which need to be taken into effect when setting policy and budgeting - 3rd December 2014
 * Osborne is right to attack Labour’s deficit plan – but his ruse is too political - Labour has clearly reverted to being a 1980s-style party of anti-capitalist class warriors obsessed with taxing and regulating everything that moves - 27th November 2014
 * Spectre of political chaos at home and in the EU is now economy’s top threat - We should feel optimistic about the current direction of the British economy -- with a few caveats, that is - 22nd November 2014
 * It’s time to end our mad fixation with bankers’ pay - The repeated attacks on the banking industry are damaging a sector of vital importance to the UK economy - 17th November 2014
 * Extra holiday pay sounds good but the economy will pay a terrible price - New ruling will undoubtedly make life even more difficult for hundreds of thousands of small businesses - some are bound to go bust - 6th November 2014
 * Forget HS2 or HS3, we need to get back to basics to fix our infrastructure - The answer to the UK's infrastructure problems is to change the rules and make it easier for the private sector to get involved - 28th October 2014
 * Don’t bash the UK’s economic recovery - we are still doing well - In the second quarter we expanded faster than all G7 nations bar the US, and a similar pattern is likely in the third quarter - 26th October 2014
 * We are now a giant step closer to debunking the myth of 'too big to fail’ - It should no be possible to resolve any large UK-based institution without needing a taxpayer bailout - 24th October 2014
 * It is truly shocking that our already huge budget deficit is still growing - The public finances are an Achilles’ Heel that could derail the Tories - 22nd October 2014
 * Greece’s latest woes signal next stage of the eurozone crisis - Greece’s sudden relapse has left many investors running for the hills - 17th October 2014
 * Politicians and regulators to blame for market madness - The FTSE 100 and Dow Jones are falling, but the real turmoil can be found in bond markets - 17th October 2014
 * The best cure for inequality is an ownership society - There is far too much emphasis on inequality as a concept in the British political debate. We should focus on making sure that a rising tide lifts all boats and improving opportunities for the poorest. - 16th October 2014
 * Solar energy and shale are the future, not costly nuclear power plants - The UK needs to focus on areas that don’t require a subsidy: shale and solar energy - 9th October 2014
 * Clear blue water opens up between Osborne and Labour on economy - Chancellor George Osborne has set out policies that place the Tories and Labour the furthest apart they have been for 20 years - 30th September 2014
 * It’s time for the Tories to demonstrate that they support British business - Business leaders are crying out for a coherent, strong and unapologetic pro-growth manifesto from the Tories. - 26th September 2014
 * Why Labour’s Mansion Tax shows that it has lost touch with financial reality - The fact that the Mansion Tax is so badly designed and illogical suggests that it would soon mutate into a full-blown, French-style wealth tax - 25th September 2014
 * Britain’s flexible labour market has saved us - it would be mad to ruin it - Labour could destroy the economy’s job-creating potential by imposing eurozone-style red tape on the jobs market - 19th September 2014
 * Our tax system is more broken than we thought - We need to tear it up and start again but for that we will need some brave and far-sighted volunteers in Westminster - 17th September 2014
 * Investors, be warned: Scottish independence would be highly contagious - The Catalans and Basques will be watching carefully; and further afield, separatists in Flanders, northern Italy and elsewhere will be jumping up and down with joy if Scotland votes for independence - 10th September 2014
 * Draghi’s feeble attempt to save the eurozone is bound to fail - Cutting interest rates by 0.1pc will have virtually no impact on the eurozone economy at all - 5th September 2014
 * Everything we thought we knew about the economy was wrong - GDP revision means it is now even harder to argue that “cuts” wrecked the recovery - 4th September 2014
 * France cheers its new economy minister – but it isn’t out of the woods yet - The idea, which Francois Hollande still holds, that the eurozone’s problems are being caused by an excessive focus on reducing budget deficits is a nonsense - 27th August 2014
 * Silly war on homebuyers is doing the Treasury more harm than good - Stamp duty is an important reason why housing transactions have collapsed from a peak of more than 210,000 a year in the late 1980s to roughly half that level today - 22nd August 2014
 * Low interest rate taboo has finally been broken - It makes no sense to keep rates low just because consumer price inflation is below 2pc - 21st August 2014
 * To put the railways back on track we must first rip out the waste - More competition, not further subsidies, is the key to reforming this antiquated industry - 20th August 2014
 * After the decline, it’s time for optimism about manufacturing - A new report claims the UK is now one of the cheapest manufacturing locations in the western hemisphere - 19th August 2014
 * Why your borrowing is a ticking time bomb - When interest rates rise, the shock to borrowers, practical as well as psychological, will be immense - 13th August 2014
 * The next government needs to reduce tax as a share of GDP - The supply-side revolution we have seen with corporation tax needs to be extended to income tax, national insurance, capital gains tax and stamp duty - 5th August 2014
 * If Britain doesn't keep Juncker's hands off the City, we’ll all be much poorer - Cameron must set out to regain the right of veto over Britain’s most important industry - 1st August 2014
 * British business flush with cash and set for spending spree - We are likely to see a steady increase in investment in factories, offices and IT, as well as more mergers and acquisitions - 30th July 2014
 * IMF tax bombshell: its plans for higher VAT and a property raid are wrong - The IMF's suggestions for VAT would destroy any government that sought to implement them - 29th July 2014
 * Russia’s importance to UK Plc has been hugely exaggerated - Just 1pc of our exports of financial and business services, including insurance, go to Russia - 24th July 2014
 * Our rocketing national debt pile is the British economy’s Achilles’ Heel - The deficit for the first three months of the fiscal year stood at £36.1bn, 7.3pc more than the £33.7bn racked up during the same time last year - 23rd July 2014
 * Britain’s complacency over public finances is dangerously misplaced - Despite the stonkingly good economic growth, and the near-miraculous performance of the jobs market, the budget deficit remains horrifyingly large - 19th July 2014
 * The Pope's attack on capitalism shows he knows nothing about how the world really works - The logical conclusion of the Pope’s tweets is that it is “evil” for the likes of Sir Richard Branson to have been allowed to keep the money he earned by providing the public with goods and services - 19th June 2014
 * HS2 is not the answer to London's economic domination - To boost growth across the UK, swathes of the country must be turned into deregulated, low or even zero tax enterprise zones - 4th June 2014
 * The rise of Ukip shows Britain is full of anger and must change - We need a political party that helps deprived areas, builds more houses, takes the question of the UK's role in Europe seriously and shakes up Parliament - 28th May 2014
 * Voters have had enough of bloated and dysfunctional governments - The public sector still wants to own, control and run everything itself; no major company could survive with this kind of attitude - 21st May 2014
 * Our recovery is at risk from British arrogance and delusion - We tend to blow it whenever things start to go right, and my great worry is that this time will be no different - 14th May 2014
 * Let Pfizer buy Astra, there is no room for nationalism in business - Many of Britain’s most successful industries are largely foreign-owned, and it matters not one jot - 7th May 2014
 * Thomas Piketty's bestselling post-crisis manifesto is horrendously flawed - A much better solution is to encourage an ownership society so all can enjoy returns from capital - 30th April 2014
 * Youngsters were hit hardest by the recession - but they are recovering fastest - The young are starting to find more jobs, enjoying pay rises and sharing in the fruits of the economic bounce-back - 23rd April 2014
 * One of the most destructive taxes of the past 40 years could soon be axed - A mansion tax would fatally undermine the concept of freehold property - 16th April 2014
 * Give the people what they want - the ability to shop all day, every day - Abolishing Sunday trading laws in today's 24/7 digital world is a no-brainer for the Coalition - 9th April 2014
 * Selling UK Plc is the only way we can avoid a full-blown crisis -Overseas buyers should be thanked: they are bailing us out and financing our lifestyle - 2nd April 2014
 * Scotland's goose that lays golden eggs has gone on strike, Mr Salmond - Decline in North Sea oil means SNP's economic case for independence doesn't stack up - 26th March 2014
 * Budget 2014: five themes George Osborne should focus on - Chancellor George Osborne needs to be even more explicit about where he stands to take back the inititative from Labour - 18th March 2014
 * What do you stand for, George Osborne – and what’s your vision for Britain? - The Chancellor must use his Budget speech to reconnect with disillusioned voters - 15th March 2014
 * Labour's manifesto could truly damage our economy - If the financial sector shrinks, the rest of the economy will have to be taxed even more heavily - 12th March 2014
 * Budget 2014: Ten policies George Osborne should announce - The Chancellor needs to show that he is on taxpayers’ side. Nobody should have to pay more than 50pc of their income in tax in any one year - 5th March 2014
 * OK, we have a cost of living crisis - but life is so much better now - To most people, the UK’s 6pc or so national pay cut to date remains a price worth paying for having access to the convenience, goods, services and jobs delivered by the economy of 2014 - 26th February 2014
 * An independent Scotland risks becoming eurozone mark 2 - The SNP is a muddled, confused blend of big state socialists, nationalists, populists and the odd genuine capitalist that will make a disastrous hash of it all - 19th February 2014
 * Business needs to fight back against these unfair attacks from politicians - To many wealth creators and captains of industry, it feels as if the UK is slowly falling out of love with business, and that the climate will worsen considerably over the next few years with yet more, usually irrational, government intervention - 12th February 2014
 * Our government system is broken and requires revolutionary change - Politics should be much more like business.The PM should be like a CEO; ministers like divisional MDs - 5th February 2014
 * Imagine the explosion of growth if we got serious about tax-cutting - Those on the lowest incomes should pay no tax at at all; while the hard-pressed middle class should face a flat tax - 29th January 2014
 * It’s time to reject crony capitalism and embrace the real thing - Sir Richard Branson and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg boost economic growth, increase employment, help develop poor economies and lift living standards, and their vast wealth is their just reward - 22nd January 2014
 * Keep Scotland in the UK - and give all the nations much more power - The central government should control defence, foreign policy, trade relations, monetary policy and financial regulation. Everything else should be decentralised - 14th January 2014
 * George Osborne's plan to shrink the state is a disaster for Britain - it doesn't go far enough - Chancellor George Osborne has decided to focus all of his attentions on one relatively small area of public spending – welfare for those of working age – and leave much of the rest untouched - 7th January 2014
 * Airport expansion is essential if flying is to remain affordable to all - It is vitally important that the democratisation of flying – a truly great social revolution – is kept on track, and for that London and the south of the country will need one more runway - 19th December 2013
 * Pay rises are making a comeback - here's how we make sure they stay - The first, and most important, reason for falling pay is that Britain is a poorer country than it used to be - 11th December 2013
 * Autumn Statement 2013: George Osborne must never forget he is the guardian of our taxes, not their rightful owner - At this week's Autumn Statement, Chancellor George Osborne must make it clear that he sees high taxes as a temporary, necessary evil but then bring them down - 4th December 2013
 * The state cannot step in to legislate on everything that assails our economy - The simple, tragic truth is that our political elites, with a handful of courageous exceptions, have turned decisively against the market economy - 27th November 2013
 * High-impact tax cuts may just save Coalition from the exit come the election - It is time for Osborne to turn to radical tax cuts, the last remaining unused but realistic weapon in the Tory armoury - 20th November 2013
 * Companies could improve our schools - and drive the bad ones out of business - The Government should be a regulator that steps in if there are abuses and pay the companies a fee for every child they educate - 12th November 2013
 * My plan to save big business and bring back public trust - Companies must start listening to a public who feel taken for granted, and undergo a cultural revolution - 5th November 2013
 * The world has never had it so good - thanks partly to capitalism - We live in largely peaceful times, with better access to medicine and education - the world is easily in the best place it’s ever been - 29th October 2013
 * We need to build more homes - just don't make them social housing - Most of what we think we know about Britain’s housing market is plain wrong - 23rd October 2013
 * There's only one answer to the cost of living crisis: a bonfire of the taxes - Britain desperately needs a significant downsizing of the size of the state, and the Government must eliminate subsidies for those who don't need them - 15th October 2013
 * Entrepreneurs need to start up a pressure group fighting for their interests - If you are a doctor, an accountant, a farmer or a teacher, there are pressure groups, professional bodies and trade unions that speak out on your behalf - 9th October 2013
 * The Right needs to start selling capitalism to the masses before it's too late - There is really just one question in political economy: do we want a bigger state, with a more activist government, or do we want a smaller one, with market forces allowed greater sway? Everything else is mere detail - 2nd October 2013
 * Ed Miliband has shown he knows nothing about business or the economy - So that was it, then. The Labour Party’s 20-year attempt at reconciling left-wing politics with the market economy, private business and individual aspiration is now over - 25th September 2013
 * The economy must work for the many not for the few - With the economy roaring back to life, many in business and Westminster expect the politics of envy, perhaps the greatest threat to Britain’s long-term prosperity, gradually to lose its potency. Yet such optimism is dangerously deluded - 18th September 2013
 * Why the left will never be right in the next big battle over living costs - Economists will continue to squabble about the effects of austerity on growth until the end of time, but British politics has finally moved on, regardless of Ed Miliband’s rather pathetic rear-guard efforts on Tuesday - 11th September 2013
 * Syria needs liberal capitalism, not missiles - Revolutions, wars and the emergence of totalitarian movements are rarely just about grand ideals, political philosophy or theological disputes - 3rd September 2013
 * The rest of the UK needs to copy London's capitalist culture - Until recently, Britain’s recovery appeared to have been mostly confined to London and its commuter belt. No longer. Growth is beginning to spread to the rest of the country; we are seeing, at last, something almost akin to a One Nation recovery - 14th August 2013
 * Mark Carney is about to make his first mistake - not raising interest rates - It is time for the Bank of England to think the unthinkable and to hike interest rates - 7th August 2013
 * Britain is playing catch-up to the US manufacturing boom - America, like Britain, is not having an easy recovery - 31st July 2013
 * If you think Britain is on its way back to prosperity, think again, it's a mirage - It is one of the many wonders of our Royal Family that its babies are perfectly, almost eerily, timed with the economic cycle - 24th July 2013
 * An online sales tax would hit the poorest shoppers hardest - As so often is the case, it was Adam Smith who got it right, even though he was writing in 1776, long before anybody could possibly have imagined the rise of the digital economy - 17th July 2013
 * Schools are failing our children simply because they are technophobes - Few industries have been left unscathed by the digital revolution - 10th July 2013
 * Britain's baby boom will affect our economy more than anything Mark Carney does - Over time, babies matter far more to an economy than even the cleverest of central bankers. The wealth of nations is determined by how many workers they host, and how productive their citizens are - 3rd July 2013
 * We need a much smaller state, not an even bigger one - bring on the cuts - Something is rotten in the state of Britain, but those who believe the problem is that the Government isn’t spending enough of our money have got it all wrong - 19th June 2013
 * Rent controls are madness, we need to build more homes - An Englishman’s home is his castle, but only if he can still afford one - 12th June 2013
 * There’s a worse crisis on the way unless we get serious about tackling debt - For all of the talk of austerity, Britain is still drowning in debt, private as well as public - 5th June 2013
 * Nigel Farage's biggest problem is Ukip doesn't do details - For a populist party, Ukip is surprisingly free of the anti-capitalist pitchfork tendency that usually defines protest movements - 22nd May 2013
 * George Osborne is reinflating house prices - and we couldn't be happier - Despite the appalling weather in most parts of Britain, something remarkable has started to happen to our national mood - 15th May 2013
 * 3D printing: the new, bottom-up industrial revolution - When Joseph Schumpeter described capitalism as a process of creative destruction more than 70 years ago, he couldn’t have conceived of the miracle that is 3D printing - 7th May 2013
 * HS2 is already obsolete, David Cameron should be preparing the UK for self-driving cars - Anybody who still believes high-speed rail is the answer to our transport problems, rather than an unaffordably grandiose throwback to a bygone era, needs to take a trip to Silicon Valley - 1st May 2013
 * Keynesians are wrong, because George Osborne's cuts are actually very modest - Sometimes, doing the right thing requires sticking your fingers in your ears, singing ting-a-ling and blocking out the shrieks from those around you who have lost their heads - 24th April 2013
 * Young go-getters will drag us out of stagnation - One Thatcherite change that Gordon Brown fortunately failed to reverse is the decline in collectivist attitudes - 21st April 2013
 * The best way to get people to care about our economy is to give them a stake in it - One of Margaret Thatcher’s greatest legacies was to bridge the divide between capital and labour - 17th April
 * To blame Margaret Thatcher for today's problems is to misunderstand history - Given that it is now 23 years since she left office, it is absurd for Lady Thatcher’s opponents to still be blaming her for Britain’s economic woes - 10th April 2013
 * Tell youngsters the truth: the UK needs you to work not go to university - There is little that is more likely to lead to ruined lives than groupthink in politics, especially when it is imposed by a well-meaning, over-enthusiastic Establishment convinced that it is doing the right thing - 3rd April 2013
 * George Osborne's aspiration nation is a sham - and stamp duty proves it - If you want to understand why Britain’s middle classes feel so over-taxed, look no further than stamp duty, a horrendously counter-productive levy which has helped torpedo the housing market - 26th March 2013
 * Budget 2013: Will George Osborne make his mark or show himself as unambitious? - Previous Chancellors tended to have well-defined economic views: it was easy to know what Gordon Brown, Lord Lawson or Lord Lamont stood for - 21st March 2013
 * George Osborne needs shock-and-awe tax cuts to avert a 1970s-style disaster - It was Mark Twain who put it best when he argued that, while history doesn't repeat itself, it does rhyme - 12th March 2013
 * Hard-pressed aspiring classes need more optimism from George Osborne - It is time for a dramatic change of approach from George Osborne. He needs a fresh message, conveyed in a new language: the priority must now be to reduce tax and spending to boost growth, not to "balance the books" - 5th March 2013
 * My 10-point plan to reboot Britain - This is George Osborne’s last opportunity. Unless he takes drastic action at next month’s Budget, with shock and awe policies to jolt the private sector back into action, he stands no chance of rebooting Britain’s crippled, downgraded economy - 26th February 2013



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