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2026

What is infrastructure and why does it matter? original ↗
28 Sept 2026
The Weighted Average Cost of Capital original ↗
22 Jun 2026
What is free cashflow to the firm? original ↗
7 Jun 2026
Key financial conceptsoriginal ↗
6 Jun 2026
Key finance concepts: Net present value and cost benefit analysis original ↗
6 Jun 2026
Key finance concepts: the benefits of diversificationoriginal ↗
6 Jun 2026
Key finance concepts: What do we mean by risk and return? original ↗
6 Jun 2026
Key finance concepts: The cost of equityoriginal ↗
6 Jun 2026
Key finance concepts: The risk-free rate of interestoriginal ↗
6 Jun 2026
Debt-fuelled bubbles are the dangerous onesoriginal ↗
5 Mar 2026
A nuclear three-body problemoriginal ↗
5 Feb 2026
Learning from the California gold rushoriginal ↗
28 Jan 2026

2025

Key finance concepts: real versus financial assetsoriginal ↗
30 Dec 2025
Is the US dollar losing ground as a global currency?original ↗
27 Dec 2025
Key finance concepts: the agency problemoriginal ↗
17 Dec 2025
Key finance concepts: asymmetric informationoriginal ↗
17 Dec 2025
A new financial institution to be born?original ↗
25 Sept 2025
A first look at the Sizewell C financingoriginal ↗
1 Aug 2025

2024

Key finance concepts: What is a corporation?original ↗
3 Sept 2024
Climate change and financeoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2024
Multiple causation in history: the case of the Global Financial Crisisoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2024

2023

Nuclear is only a small part of the answer to climate changeoriginal ↗
14 Aug 2023
Why markets ignore sovereign debt ratings for the USoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2023
You can’t insure against climate changeoriginal ↗
13 Jul 2023
What is geopolitics?original ↗
13 Apr 2023
Avoiding another Cold Waroriginal ↗
30 Mar 2023
The paradox of Chinese Communist ideologyoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2023

2021

The beginning of the end of the oil ageoriginal ↗
7 Apr 2021
The case for bitcoinoriginal ↗
15 Mar 2021
Ten years after Fukushimaoriginal ↗
8 Mar 2021
The importance of infrastructureoriginal ↗
1 Mar 2021
Has the US “lost” China a second time?original ↗
22 Feb 2021
Should oil companies invest in renewable electricity?original ↗
14 Feb 2021

2020

India and Chinaoriginal ↗
20 Jun 2020
Why “Chinese virus” is wrongoriginal ↗
6 May 2020
On the importance of kindnessoriginal ↗
7 Apr 2020
It really is different this timeoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2020
Being pro-markets, not pro-businessoriginal ↗
24 Feb 2020
Why an abrupt tightening of climate change policy may be our only hopeoriginal ↗
2 Feb 2020
Some recent books that help explain the worldoriginal ↗
28 Jan 2020

2019

Institutions seldom dieoriginal ↗
20 May 2019
Could China’s population halve by the end of the century?original ↗
1 Apr 2019
What has the world economy ever done for us? – EMBA elective reading 2 (*)original ↗
14 Jan 2019
Populism then and now – EMBA elective reading 1(*)original ↗
6 Jan 2019

2018

Lost in (Russian) musicoriginal ↗
28 Oct 2018
Perhaps money can buy you happinessoriginal ↗
21 Oct 2018
Is the US yield curve close to inverting – and does this mean a recession?original ↗
14 Oct 2018
Are we heading for a world like that of “1984”?original ↗
7 Oct 2018
Why hyperinflation is thankfully rareoriginal ↗
30 Sept 2018
What’s the future for peer-to-peer lending?original ↗
23 Sept 2018
Financial innovations behind the US real estate boom and bust of 2002-2008original ↗
17 Sept 2018
Ten years of the Cambridge Master of Financeoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2018

2017

Is China’s debt even higher than we thought?original ↗
27 Oct 2017
Trade and the global economyoriginal ↗
31 Mar 2017
Why are some countries richer than others?original ↗
27 Mar 2017
Three interesting facts about Chinese monetary historyoriginal ↗
26 Feb 2017
The world in 2017original ↗
3 Jan 2017

2016

Yet more quotations on my birthdayoriginal ↗
9 Dec 2016
US capitalism no longer works for most peopleoriginal ↗
10 Nov 2016
China’s growing debt problemoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2016
What is helicopter money?original ↗
13 Sept 2016
Key finance concepts: Introduction to Bondsoriginal ↗
5 Sept 2016
Key financial concepts: Financial marketsoriginal ↗
15 Aug 2016
Classifying funds: the length of the contractoriginal ↗
14 Aug 2016
Two key types of capital: debt and equityoriginal ↗
14 Aug 2016
Key financial concepts: securitiesoriginal ↗
9 Aug 2016
Interview about Hinkley Point C and the Chinese reaction, on Cambridge TVoriginal ↗
5 Aug 2016
The latest in the Hinkley Point C soap operaoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2016
New article in the Chatham House journal “The World Today”original ↗
2 Aug 2016
Key finance concepts: exchange ratesoriginal ↗
12 Jul 2016
Letter from Guangxioriginal ↗
4 Jul 2016
Brexit: Life will go on – we’ll just be pooreroriginal ↗
25 Jun 2016
Letter from Dublinoriginal ↗
19 Jun 2016
Some modestly good news in the energy worldoriginal ↗
13 Jun 2016
Tragedy or comedy? The story of nuclear power in the UKoriginal ↗
12 Jun 2016
在剑桥端午节 (Dragon Boat Festival in Cambridge)original ↗
5 Jun 2016
Rising monopoly power may partly explain US inequality and productivity slowdownoriginal ↗
16 May 2016
How can retail finance customers avoid being ripped off?original ↗
8 May 2016
Key concepts in finance: liquidityoriginal ↗
25 Apr 2016
Further thoughts on the Hinkley Point C nuclear projectoriginal ↗
21 Apr 2016
Thoughts on the Brexit debateoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2016
IMF study: corporate profitability positively associated with women in senior positionsoriginal ↗
7 Mar 2016
Nuclear book mentioned in Economist article on Hinkley Point C projectoriginal ↗
26 Feb 2016
Why Hinkley Point C is in troubleoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2016
Interview about how the UK came to be paying France and China for a new nuclear power stationoriginal ↗
16 Feb 2016
Some mostly good news on gender equalityoriginal ↗
14 Feb 2016
What exactly is “the” exchange rate?original ↗
3 Feb 2016
Markets versus economicsoriginal ↗
24 Jan 2016
David Bowie innovated in finance toooriginal ↗
18 Jan 2016

2015

When bank notes were funoriginal ↗
13 Dec 2015
Some quotations on my birthdayoriginal ↗
10 Dec 2015
Why nuclear?original ↗
8 Dec 2015
The IMF includes the RMB in the SDR basketoriginal ↗
2 Dec 2015
The true story of the Euro crisisoriginal ↗
30 Nov 2015
Changes in the Federal Reserve’s measurement of short term interest ratesoriginal ↗
20 Nov 2015
Cash remains kingoriginal ↗
16 Nov 2015
Global foreign reserves are now fallingoriginal ↗
3 Nov 2015
Bank executive pay appears rigged against womenoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2015
Is a market determined exchange rate always a good thing?original ↗
21 Sept 2015
Thinking about the risks to global economic growthoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2015
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