September 1, 2025 Blog

Monthly News Roundup – August 2025

We have compiled some news, comment pieces and announcements that we hope our readers find interesting. In this instalment, there are stories relating to artificial intelligence, free trade, economic growth, employment, post-disaster reconstruction and the environment:   A new wave of clean-energy innovation is building (The Economist) While the Trump administration has withdrawn subsidies from...

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August 18, 2025 Blog

Mid-August News Roundup

We have compiled some news, comment pieces and announcements that we hope our readers find interesting. In this instalment, there are stories relating to artificial intelligence, free trade and the environment:   Artificial Intelligence Robot bricklayers that can work round the clock coming to Britain (The Telegraph) Following success in the Netherlands, robot bricklayers will be...

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August 11, 2025 Blog

Philip Booth: God and Government

This is a repost of a consideration of religious principles in political life by CEME Fellow, Professor Philip Booth, first published on the Catholic Social Teaching blog of St Mary’s University The idea that government should be based on Christian principles is continually under attack – not least on several occasions in the assisted suicide debate. Not...

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July 29, 2025 Blog

Conversation with Andrew Haldane

In this discussion with CEME Senior Research Fellow John Kroencke, Andrew Haldane discusses his view that economic growth is a failed lodestar for policy, presents the case for increasing opportunity for those at a disadvantage, and considers the problems with British public finance. This is the first entry in our Conversations with CEME Series which...

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July 16, 2025 Blog

Neil Jordan – The AI Job Interview

It has been reported that Ribbon AI, a Canadian company, is offering employers a new form of screening interview conducted by artificial intelligence. With a view to helping organisations hire staff more quickly and job-seekers find work sooner by cutting out ‘dead time’ in the recruitment process, early stage job interviews are conducted in a...

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July 16, 2025 Blog

News Roundup Mid-July

We have compiled some news, comment pieces and announcements that we hope our readers find interesting. In this instalment, there are stories relating to utilities, artificial intelligence, carbon markets, housing and taxation, work and wellbeing, taxation, public finances and the environment: Utilities Why does Scotland use more water than the rest of the UK?, BBC...

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June 30, 2025 Blog

June News Roundup

30 June 2025 We have compiled some news, comment pieces and announcements that we hope our readers will find interesting. In this instalment, there are stories relating to artificial intelligence, pensions and savings, state intervention in markets, and housing: Another Review CEME’s latest publication, Inflation is About More Than Money, by Brian Griffiths, is on...

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June 30, 2025 Blog

Paul Mueller: Central Banks and Inflation

My colleague, Dr. Dave Hebert, wrote a nice overview of different types of inflation and how they can affect people. He pointed out that the rate of inflation can be high or low as well as anticipated or unanticipated. He also explained how inflation is fundamentally a monetary phenomenon: too much money chasing too few...

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June 23, 2025 Blog

David Hebert – Deflating the Myths Surrounding Inflation

Subscribe to the CEME Substack   Inflation is a topic that plenty of pundits and talking heads have brought up on the news. For the non-economists, it might seem as if they do so ad nauseum. Despite its frequent coverage, however, few people understand why the U.K., like much of the rest of the world...

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June 9, 2025 Blog

Monthly News Roundup – Mid-June 2025

We have compiled some news, comment pieces and announcements that we hope our readers find interesting. In this instalment, there are stories relating to artificial intelligence, utilities, defence spending, public finances and the cost of borrowing, virtue and commercial success, pensions and the environment:   Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence shows great potential for transforming businesses...

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