We were, de facto, the EU medicines regulator until Brexit. (View Post)

In some respects, China already has. They've proved, up to a point, that massive state intervention across all aspects of the economy can work (though note that alongside that, they also allow/foster… (View Post)

UK pension funds used to hold a far higher proportion of equities until the regulations forced them to hold much more "safe" government bonds, Which amounts effectively to a tax on pensions… (View Post)

It's somewhat incomplete, as the comments ("what's to be done" etc) suggest, but I thought I'd better post it rather than let it lie around to be finished (I'm a dreadful procrastinator whe… (View Post)

Stuff like pensions regulation effectively means a lot of that capital can't go to funding long term growth. New public company listings in London have also cratered. In 2005, there were 190 IPOs on … (View Post)