Roger Bootle
Roger Bootle is one of the City's leading economists. In his column he sheds light on how the UK and world economies are performing and the challenges facing the world's policymakers.
LATEST FROM ROGER BOOTLE
No need for UK economy 'Plan B' but let's suspend the foreign aid budget
The fact that so many people are now shouting about the need for a Plan B is unsurprising.
12 Jun 2011
Deciding between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
There has been another deal stitched up to help Greece. However, it won’t necessarily solve the problem.
06 Jun 2011
They can try to ‘delay and pray’ but the euro is running out of time
As a doomsayer from the start, who has written several times on the subject, I have recently been reluctant to burden my readers with more jeremiads about the euro.
29 May 2011
We need to build up manufacturing, but not as much as you think
Britain's share of manufacturing is not ridiculously low - it is still larger than the share of financial services. Yet this is not how people commonly see things.
22 May 2011
The wrong kind of inflation
"It's not the inflation they need to sort out, Mr Bootle, it's the rising prices!"
16 May 2011
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