Free Trade Speech
I recently had the pleasure of addressing a meeting in Mankato, Minnesota, hosted by the Heritage Foundation on the subject of trade and its role in Minnesota’s…
John Phelan is a fellow of the Cobden Centre and works as an economist at Center of the American Experiment. He is a graduate of Birkbeck College, University of London, where he earned a BSc in Economics, and of the London School of Economics where he earned an MSc. He worked in finance for ten years before becoming a professional economist. He worked at Capital Economics in London, where he wrote reports ranging from the impact of Brexit on the British economy to the effect of government regulation on cell phone coverage. John has written for City A.M. in London and for The Wall Street Journal in both Europe and the U.S. He has also been published in the journal Economic Affairs.
I recently had the pleasure of addressing a meeting in Mankato, Minnesota, hosted by the Heritage Foundation on the subject of trade and its role in Minnesota’s…
“I know from a common sense financial standpoint that something has to burst. When a country is losing billions and billions and billions of…
Published in the Wall Street Journal yesterday from John Phelan, “Central Bankers Are All ‘Corbynistas’ Now”: Source: http://www.wsj.com/articles/central-bankers-are-all-corbynistas-now-1470858620 When Britain’s Labour Party leader Jeremy…
14 October 2015 16:15 – 18:00 John Phelan, Capital Economics “The Road Not Taken – The Hard ECU; Britain’s Alternative to the Euro” In 2009…
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This week marked the fifth anniversary of the 0.5% Bank of England base rate and the Bank of England’s Quantitative Easing program which has…
An article for the Wall Street Journal … Last week the U.K.’s Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat parties got together to administer a Flodden-style…
I’ve recently written for Save Our Savers attempting to square the massive expansion of Britain’s monetary base since March 2009 with the fact that…
Minimum wages are a popular topic. Barack Obama proposes a nearly 40% increase from $7.25 per hour to $10.10 and David Cameron has faced…
In 2008 as The Great Moderation came to an end, Queen Elizabeth II asked Mervyn King “Why did no-one see this coming?” Her Majesty…