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Warwick Lightfoot is an economist with specialist interests in monetary economics, public finance and labour markets.
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The 1976 IMF Crisis in Britain - fifty years on (opens the original)
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The European Parliament and the Sir Edward Heath Charitable Foundation organised a seminar looking at the IMF rescue of Britain in the Autumn of 1976. It was held at Europe House, the European Parliament and European Commission offices in London in Smith Square. A large neo-classical building, 32 Smith Square that was for about fifty years the home of the Conservative Party’s Central Office. The conference room was used during the peak of the Conservatives’ power, as a party of government in the
The Political Economy of Andy Burnham’s Diagnosis of the UK Economy: A Better Yesterday (opens the original)
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Andy Burnham has a ‘diagnosis’ of the challenges of the British economy and a series of remedies that are framed in a selective nostalgia for Britain before 1980. He expresses them in a rhetoric of bromides about neo-liberalism and fiscal responsibility that he does not appear to have a purchase on. An engaging man, he speaks in the manner of a charismatic chief executive of a local authority, addressing a conference on urban regeneration. It is an elegy about a better yesterday turned into a pr
Kevin Warsh: US has an Inflation Problem, Prices are not Sticky, Inflation will simply not Mean Revert, and Money Matters (opens the original)
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Kevin Warsh, the recently appointed Chair of the Federal Reserve Board spoke at the annual Jackson Hole Economic Symposium hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas. Mr Warsh’s speech was impressive and explains why he ultimately prevailed in President Trump’s baroque beauty parade of auditions for the appointment.Thanks for reading Warwick Lightfoot's Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<form class="subscription-widget-subscribe
Oliver Newton Colvile 26 August 1959 - 21 October 2025 (opens the original)
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Today Oliver Colvile would have been sixty-seven. He was the Conservative Member of Parliament for Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport between 2010 and 2017. He died in October 2025 following a long illness aged sixty-six. I knew Oliver Colvile for over forty years. This appreciation of his life draws on a note written immediately after his death and is based on the vivid memories that were stimulated by learning the news that he had died. These memories reflect years of conversation at our homes, an
Key to effective economic policy: realism about Monetary Conditions and Public Spending (opens the original)
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My article End Federal Reserve Deference: Stop the Ming Vase Treatment, Time for Change elicited an interesting response from an old friend. An old friend in both the sense of being a long standing one, and in the actuarial sense of age, in terms of accumulated anno domini. Edmund Shillabeer, was a long-serving veterinary surgeon in Plymouth. He is believed to have been Britain’s oldest full-time working vet when he retired in 2024 at the age of eight-five.<div class="subscr
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