Peter Hoskin

The case for pessimism

Amid all the talk of green shoots and renewed economic growth, Vince Cable and Martin Wolf pop up today to warn that the nightmare is, potentially, far from over.  

Of the two, Wolf’s is the more useful article; linking, as it does, to a paper by the economic historians Barry Eichengreen and Kevin H.

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