Craig Ryan

LATEST ARTICLES ( 15 )

• Power Sharing

  

  Shareholders don’t really “own” firms, so why do they call the shots? We all like to read stuff in the papers we agree with, but it’s particularly satisfying... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2014 BUSINESS

• Osborne’s Funny Money

  

  Only just getting round to this but, in case you missed it, there’s some good work here from Richard Murphy at Tax Research UK, who has recast George Osborne’s... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2014 BUSINESS

• The Young London Mums at the Sharp End of Our Economic Failure

  

  The Focus E15 mums, who are campaigning for affordable housing in East London, are back in court this week, after fending off Newham Council’s vindictive attemp... Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2014 BUSINESS

• More Houses? Oh, If Only It Were That Simple…

  If you can’t explain something, complicate it. A few years ago, I went into an estate agency in south London to inquire about renting a flat. The agent, a... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2014 BUSINESS

• Sauce for the Gander, Poison for the Flock

  Merger mania isn’t good news Martin Sorrell, the boss of WPP, one of the biggest advertising agencies in the world, gave an interesting interview to the Guardia... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2014 BUSINESS

• GDP: Gross Delusional Propaganda

  

  Ideology determines which economic indicators we’re told to pay attention to. So the great recession, depression or slump is apparently over, GDP having returne... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2014 BUSINESS

• Doubting Thomas

  Give Piketty a break – read the book! Two recent commentaries on Thomas Piketty’s blockbuster, Capital in the 21st Century, caught my attention, if for no... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2014 BUSINESS

• Empty Vessels

  Many British firms are just investment vehicles with nothing inside. I run a small business. We don’t have a mission statement and we’re not about to write one. Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2014 BUSINESS

• New Blog

  My new blog, Radical Uncertainty, starts here. Read the about page to get an idea what I’ll be going on about. And to pad things out a bit, I’ve transferred a... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2014 BUSINESS

• The Free-market Eats Itself

  Pfizer’s putative takeover of British pharma giant Astra Zeneca exposes yet another intellectual paradox of free market economics. Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2014 BUSINESS

• Is France Being Let Down?

  Is France going into a deflationary spiral? Some economists — a minority, admittedly, but a growing one — fear it might be. If so, the consequences for France,... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2014 BUSINESS

• Thumbs up for the Real Digital Revolution

  

  Petite Poucette, by Michel Serres. Editions Le Pommier 2012. Saint Denis was beheaded on the hill looming over northern Paris now known as Montmartre. Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2014 BUSINESS

• Stopping Councils from Building Houses Hurts Us All

  

  This graph from Monday’s Guardian tells you most of what you need to know about the housing crisis in the UK. It tells a simple but very sorry tale. Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2013 BUSINESS

• Mission Accomplished, George?

  

  Osborne’s recovery is just like Darling’s – only slower, weaker and later. George Osborne’s crowing over the economic recovery reminded me of George W Bush,... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2013 BUSINESS

• This 18th Century Monolith is Ripe for Reform

  

  Hardly an hour passes without talk of some new reform in the public sector. For at least thirty years change has been a constant in public services. Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2013 BUSINESS