'Hundreds of thousands of people organise and attend political meetings, and even pay membership dues so they can do unselfish things. Are they mad?'

'Mark Carney has undermined what many viewed as a basic premise of the UK inflation-targeting regime'

'George Osborne did not have the gumption to take my advice and reject the Vickers report on banking in 2011. Now he is blatantly trying to bypass its constraints'

'The ten years to 2017 could be the first peacetime decade since the 17th century to see no economic growth in Europe'