Recession
In Credit from the Crunch
‘Has the banking crisis cost the taxpayer £2 billion, £131 billion or £500 billion?’
Banker-Bashing
‘Bankers are humans too. Their only crime has been to be clever, hard-working, rich and successful’
History’s Greatest Ponzi Scheme
Politicians sat on their hands as the mighty American economy was sent to its doom. What is to be done to prevent a repeat?
They Still Won’t Tell Us the Dire Truth
This election will go down as a dishonest campaign: none of the parties came clean with the voters about the economy
Bail-out Bunkum
‘Despite banker-bashing in the media, the British taxpayer ought to make a profit from the government’s intervention in the banking crisis’
Quantitatively Pleasing
‘Quantitative easing may not have stopped the recession, but it certainly rescued Britain from an even greater one’
What Would Keynes Say?
The most inflential economist of the 20th century still dominates debate about the financial crisis. His biographer Robert Skidelsky and Britain’s leading monetarist Tim Congdon discuss the relevance of Keynes
The Unnecessary Recession
A flawed economic doctrine led Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling to plunge Britain into its worst postwar crisis
New York: Diary
‘New York feels much calmer than London about the financial crisis. It’s not clear if this attitude is a product of resignation or sheer denial, schadenfreude against wealthy financiers, or perhaps a kind of emotional hardiness born of the 9/11 attacks.’
Is Capitalism Morally Bankrupt?
Samuel Brittan and Edward Hadas, both distinguished economic commentators, discuss where to place the blame for the current global crisis with Standpoint editor Daniel Johnson
The West slumbers as its enemies run amok
Profound weaknesses leave us open to political warfare from Russia and China—weaknesses which they are ruthlessly exploiting
Routed by liberalism
How usury killed Christendom
Offences and defences
‘Standpoint is, as it has always been, a magazine for small-c conservatives and small-l liberals. But it is also for small-s socialists and small-g greens, and for those who resist pigeonholing on principle’