Gravitational Pull

19/07/2025 by Tony Redondo Chancellor Rachel Reeves unveiled pro-growth financial reforms, dubbed the “Leeds Reforms”, aimed at cutting red tape and boosting investment, saying regulation […]

12/07/2025 by Tony Redondo Post-election last July, Chancellor Rachel Reeves told her Treasury team that Labour’s mission was to “deliver economic growth that is felt

05/07/2025 by Tony Redondo President Trump’s 2 April ‘Liberation Day’ tariff and subsequent announcements pushed tariffs to their highest levels in a century. It’s been

28/06/2025 by Tony Redondo Keir Starmer’s government has made three major policy U-turns in 2025 (winter fuel payments, grooming gangs’ inquiry, and disability benefit cuts).

21/06/2025 by Tony Redondo On 4 July, Labour will have been in power for exactly a year. On reflection, is the UK in need of

14/06/2025 by Tony Redondo This was proposed by David Ricardo, one of the most influential classical economists, in the 19th century and later formalized by

07/06/2025 by Tony Redondo The Laffer Curve is an economic concept illustrating the relationship between tax rates and tax revenue. It suggests that at a

31/05/2025 by Tony Redondo The US Dollar continues to dip as the Moody’s debt downgrade, weak GDP and TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out) continue to

24/05/2025 by Tony Redondo PM Sir Keir Starmer announced details of a UK-EU Brexit “reset” deal: –                 What Starmer’s new UK-EU deal means for

17/05/2025 by Tony Redondo If a year ago, someone would had announced that the best-case scenario would be for average US tariffs to quadruple, from