The UK faces a major loss of market confidence. With high deficits and a refusal to confront...
Author - Robert Lee
An American Economic Renaissance
America’s supply side economic recovery is being driven by fiscal discipline, productivity growth...
Does This Disastrous Budget Make a UK Economic Crisis...
A truly shambolic Budget makes it even more likely that the Labour government will confront a major...
Reeves Should Raise Income Tax by 2p
Economist Robert Lee argues that, despite breaking a manifesto promise, a 2p rise in the UK’s basic...
Trumponomics Is Already Working
According to the critics Trump’s economic policies would cause higher inflation and a recession and...
Could Trump be right and the Critics wrong?
Trump’s bold economic reset—via tariffs, cuts, and deregulation—aims to prevent a debt crisis and...
The UK must be ready for major global monetary reform
The Trump administration may be planning a major reset of the global monetary system, one that...
Labour must urgently change course to avert a major currency...
There has been an alarming recent deterioration in the UK’s already precarious balance of payments...
The Starmer Government Could Fall Well Before 2029
Labour’s massive parliamentary majority leads all to assume that they will be in power for the next...
The Economic Consequences Of Trump 2.0
Market’s fear that Trump 2.0 tax cuts and tariff increases might set off a new wave of inflation...
The UK Economy Is Now At High Risk Of Recession
Former investment manager and economist Rob Lee takes a dim view of Rachel Reeves’ recent Budget...
Ed Miliband’s energy policies could bring the government down
Labour’s election campaign promised that promoting economic growth would be its “number one...
Is Labour Already Sowing The Seeds Of Another Economic Crisis?
Every post-war Labour government has produced an economic crisis. This one promised to be different...
Is Brexit Safe Under Labour?
Rather than being a threat to Brexit, the change of government in the UK is more likely to...
The Inflation Dragon Is Slain: Time To Cut Interest Rates And...
UK inflation is set to fall sustainably to or below the 2% target level. The Bank of England should...
The UK’s Trade Negotiators Are Post-brexit Heroes
Amid the media’s relentless focus on the negative, a great UK success story is proceeding almost...
The UK Will Grow Faster than The EU and The US in 2024/25
Not Despite but Partly Because of Brexit. There is no denying that the UK economy has some serious...
UK Inflation not due to Brexit
Economist Rob Lee views the UK’s inflation as not “uniquely bad” and nothing to do with Brexit...
Autumn Statement: A Growth plan in disguise?
The recent Sunak/Hunt Budget has been widely excoriated. It appears to herald a deep recession...
Trussonomics Will Work if Supply Side Reforms Are Delivered
The UK’s radical change in economic policy is a gamble, but is well considered and necessary this...
The UK Economic Outlook is Better Than You Think
The UK’s current economic problems are serious, but not insurmountable. Here are nine good reasons...
The UK Economy Is Still Set to Outperform
Increased inflationary pressures and trade friction resulting from war in Ukraine will hit an...
In Defence of Boris Johnson
The PM is in serious trouble, much of it self-inflicted by ill-discipline and weak staff support at...
The Gloom Is Overdone: The UK Is Set to Be a Global Winner
The UK has recently seen tax increases, price rises and supply bottlenecks that will slow recovery...
Inflation the Main Threat to UK Economic Recovery
In previous articles Rob Lee has taken a bullish stance on the UK’s economic and fiscal prospects...
The UK Can Avoid the Boom / Bust Recovery
Former Chief Economist and economic consultant Rob Lee assesses the economic context facing the UK...
The EU/UK Trade Deal: Boris Achieves the “Impossible”
Economist and investor Rob Lee reflects on the Trade and Cooperation Agreement and how it was...
The UK’s Fiscal Recovery Has Begun
The Chancellor’s Spending Review – eye-watering headline numbers and apocalyptic media coverage...
The Covid Doomsters Are Wrong: The UK Is Heading for Recovery
Despite a tide of negative reporting, the UK’s overall strategy is clear and is having success...
Treasury austerity plans must be ditched: We need tax reform not...
Internal UK Treasury plans to raise taxes to reduce Covid-19 related debt levels have recently...
In Defence of The UK’s Response to The Covid-19 Pandemic
With its death toll apparently the highest in Europe the UK’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic has...
Gallows Humour in A Crisis, and A Major Buying Opportunity
To help lighten the gloom Rob Lee offers a few humorous investment anecdotes from a collection...
An EU/UK FTA Can Be Done in 2020
Now that Brexit “will get done”, focus switches to the EU/UK FTA negotiations. Can a trade deal be...
The Brexit Logjam Finally Breaks
The dissolution of the shambolic and paralysed 2017-2019 Parliament finally provides a clear way...
A Brexit Britain Can Help Avert a Global Trade War
Remainers argue that the UK will struggle to secure new trade deals in the face of rising global...
The Case For Fiscal Expansion Post-Brexit
This article examines the scope for a fiscal stimulus package to support the economy in the post...
MP’s Fears About the Economic Impact of ‘No Deal’ Make No Sense
Those MP’s supporting Parliamentary efforts to prevent a ‘No deal’ Brexit largely avoid talking...
Tory MPs need To Get Real: It’s Got To Be Boris
Robert Lee argues that with the UK facing a constitutional crisis and the Tory party in an...
A French Veto – the Beautiful Symmetry?
French President Charles de Gaulle vetoed the British government’s request for membership of the...
Brexiteers Should Now Prepare to Back Mrs May’s Deal
In recent days I have concluded that Brexit supporters – and Remainers who want to respect the...
Opponents of a WTO Brexit Ignore the Basic Lesson of Economics
We must look at long-term, not only short-term consequences, and at effects for everyone, not only...
Prepare for A WTO Brexit and Liberation!
Hard political facts, the ticking clock, and the now rapidly progressing preparations for a ‘No...
The EEA Option: “Norway to Canada” Could Be the Way to Go
The EEA [European Economic Area] route must be explored with urgency. Mrs May refused from day one...
The BRINO “Coup” has Failed by Robert Lee
Robert Lee believes that the Chequers “coup” has failed. He explains why he believes that a Clean...
“No Deal” is Coming Up Fast on the Rails
Rob Lee views the recent White Paper on Brexit as meaning no realistic prospect of future trade...
Brexit: An Investment Opportunity
Rob Lee views UK companies as undervalued in the stock market due to the Brexit Referendum. He...
After the Transition Agreement. Deal or No deal
Robert Lee argues that the outlook for Brexit has become distinctly more optimistic from a UK point...
The Euro Crisis: Forgotten but not Gone
Robert Lee argues that that the Euro crisis has receded but not gone away. He cites three reasons...