Kallum Pickering

Kallum Pickering is chief economist at investment bank Peel Hunt. He is writing in a personal capacity.

Why Britain’s economy doesn’t work

From our UK edition

The great virtue of markets is that they are coldly actuarial and politically indifferent. Win them over and you can get a lot done. Just ask Javier Milei, President of Argentina. Milei has defied his left-wing critics and the distrust engendered by a lengthy history of defaults to slash public spending, rebuild reserves and tackle