Matthew Lynn

Is Donald Trump ready to weather a US recession?

15 April 2025 8:29 pm

A recession now looks even more certain for the United States than it does for the UK. Output has flattened.…

Nationalising British Steel won’t fix a thing

12 April 2025 10:35 pm

There will be some stirring speeches about saving jobs. There will be lots of grand rhetoric about securing a great…

Donald Trump has got what he wanted

10 April 2025 5:22 pm

Donald Trump has peered into the abyss. The US President watched the Wall Street meltdown and the global trading system…

The EU is making a big mistake by retaliating against Trump

10 April 2025 2:08 am

A Harley-Davidson will cost you a little more in France; Florida orange juice will be more expensive in Germany and…

The hidden logic behind Trump’s market meltdown

9 April 2025 4:00 pm

Donald Trump’s announcement of huge levies on all the US’s major trading partners has triggered a global stock market meltdown,…

Is the worst of the market crash over?

9 April 2025 12:25 am

The FTSE-100 is up by a couple of hundred points. Germany’s DAX has added 400 points, and in Tokyo the…

Rachel Reeves could be Trump’s first tariff crash victim

7 April 2025 10:51 pm

There will be plenty of victims of the crash currently playing out across the global financial markets. A few hedge…

Trump can’t ignore the stock market carnage forever

4 April 2025 8:31 pm

As it turned out, the only thing Liberation Day was actually liberating anyone from was their money. In the wake…

Trump’s tariffs are just bizarre

3 April 2025 7:54 pm

They would restore manufacturing, force trade barriers to be taken down, and allow new industries to be created. There have…

The minimum wage is too high

2 April 2025 12:26 am

Council tax is going up. Train fares are rising. Broadband will cost more, and so will electricity and water. April…

Starmer’s costly failure to get a Trump tariff carve-out

1 April 2025 10:04 pm

The UK should have been doing everything possible to secure an exemption from Trump’s tariffs. We could have scrapped the…

Give holiday home owners a break

29 March 2025 4:47 pm

If you have had your eye on a bungalow along the Devon coast, a cottage in the New Forest, or…

Who’s going to miss WH Smith?

28 March 2025 11:16 pm

WH Smith is opting for the oldest trick in the corporate playbook. It is changing its name. It might have…

If Bailey won’t call for radical growth reforms, no one will

25 March 2025 11:25 pm

It was hardly the message Chancellor Rachel Reeves would have been looking for a day before a Spring Statement which…

Is the Trump Slump over?

25 March 2025 3:58 am

Tariffs would destroy supply chains and drive up inflation. Elon Musk’s savage cuts would bring the government machine grinding to…

The flaw in Labour’s plan to fix potholes

24 March 2025 9:39 pm

Ahead of last summer’s election, the Labour party made lots of grand promises about how it was going to fix…

China’s BYD could kill Tesla

19 March 2025 8:27 pm

Tesla and its hyper-active boss Elon Musk are having a bad month. On both sides of the Altantic, there have…

It’s impossible to make Scottish politicians financially literate

18 March 2025 12:08 am

Even the OECD has finally noticed. The Paris-based policy forum is normally always in favour of higher taxes and more…

It’s been a poor five years from Andrew Bailey

16 March 2025 10:09 pm

The pound has not collapsed. You can still trade shares, bonds and currencies in the City of London. And inflation,…

Why John Lewis’s profits have soared

14 March 2025 12:19 am

Growth has ground to a halt, manufacturing is collapsing, and the government is desperately scratching around for ways to save…

Trump’s Tesla stunt won’t help Musk

12 March 2025 8:57 pm

Tesla’s share price has halved, sales have slumped, boycotts are being organised and Chinese rivals are ready to steal the…

Does Trump want a stock market crash?

11 March 2025 9:38 pm

There ‘could be a recession’, said President Trump over the weekend with the kind of nonchalant shrug that suggested he…

Europe could pay the price for Germany’s debt shake-up

5 March 2025 9:37 pm

Germany has finally decided to join the party – but Europe may come to regret it. After two decades of…

The fatal flaws in Trump’s crypto reserve plan

3 March 2025 9:31 pm

President Trump was very bullish about his decision over the weekend to create a ‘crypto reserve’. It will legitimise crypto…

Will Labour MPs scupper a US-UK trade deal?

28 February 2025 11:33 pm

A UK-US trade deal is on the table. On a surprisingly successful trip to Washington, US President Donald Trump made…