Matthew Lynn

Matthew Lynn

Matthew Lynn is a financial columnist and author. He writes for WSJ Marketwatch, The Spectator and Money Week as well as The Telegraph, and has worked as a columnist for The Sunday Times and Bloomberg. His books include ‘Bust: Greece, The Euro and The Sovereign Debt Crisis’ and ‘The Long Depression: The Slump of 2008 to 2031’ as well as the ‘Death Force’ thrillers published by Hodder Headline. He is also the founder of Lume Books, a leading e-book publisher.

Javier Milei isn’t ‘hard Right’. He could be Argentina’s free market saviour

The unconventional president-elect's proposals are eminently sensible

Matthew Lynn 20 Nov 2023, 4:39pm

London faces a severe reckoning with Lagarde’s City challenger

Lagarde's dream could match the might of markets in the US and China

Matthew Lynn 19 Nov 2023, 10:00am
The global economy is on the brink – and neither Trump nor Biden can bring it back

Not in modern times has there been such a weak pool of presidential candidates

Matthew Lynn 18 Nov 2023, 2:00pm
Labour’s socialist experiment in Wales should terrify us all

At the rate it is going, there will be virtually no economy left at all

Matthew Lynn 16 Nov 2023, 2:43pm

We’ve got Cameron – now bring back Osborne

The former Chancellor was arguably the most successful holder of the office since Nigel Lawson

Matthew Lynn 13 Nov 2023, 3:44pm
Good riddance to the consulting gravy train

Shrinking the bloated professional services industry will free up Britain’s brightest talents

Matthew Lynn 12 Nov 2023, 10:00am
The first great green scandals are just the tip of the iceberg

Throwing money at net zero only invites opportunities for sharp practice

Matthew Lynn 11 Nov 2023, 10:00am
Savers are the Treasury’s new cash cow

We shouldn't be fooled by modest tweaks to ISAs. The Government will still be clobbering those building nest eggs or planning for retirement

Matthew Lynn 9 Nov 2023, 2:58pm
Sunak needs to do more than just ‘permit’ oil and gas

Fixing licencing rounds won’t change the fundamental problem: the Government is making North Sea oil and gas a bad investment

Matthew Lynn 6 Nov 2023, 4:07pm
Banning it before we explore it? That’s Britain alright

We have the mining expertise and conglomerate clout – yet we’re not prepared to even explore deep sea mining

Matthew Lynn 5 Nov 2023, 10:00am

Narayana Murthy’s message of hard work can fix Britain – not Elon Musk’s AI vision

The global economy is dominated by two major powers where grafting is the norm... perhaps Rishi Sunak’s father-in-law makes a good point

By Matthew Lynn 4 Nov 2023, 9:00am
Sam Bankman-Fried exposed the woke capitalist elite for the fools they are

FTX had red flags all over it yet the investment industry was happy to pour in vast sums

Matthew Lynn 4 Nov 2023, 9:00am
It will take Unilever a long time to shed its woke nonsense

New boss at the behemoth conglomerate faces a challenge in his attempts to effect change

Matthew Lynn 29 Oct 2023, 10:00am
Liz Truss is slowly winning the argument

Her presentation may have been catastrophic – but she remains a champion of growth

Matthew Lynn 28 Oct 2023, 6:00am
Michael Gove is turning renting into a Kafkaesque nightmare

It's now obvious that 10 years of tinkering have made the market more dysfunctional than ever. There's only one fix that will work

Matthew Lynn 24 Oct 2023, 7:25pm
The EU is determined to be poor – and soon it’ll have the tax to guarantee it

A tax on billionaires would be a devastating economic blow

Matthew Lynn 24 Oct 2023, 9:00am
Our transatlantic cousins have worked out the secret to becoming wealthier

Following the lead of our friends across the Atlantic will make us a richer country

Matthew Lynn 22 Oct 2023, 10:00am
Scottish independence is about to be dealt a fatal blow

First Minister’s plan to issue bonds takes the SNP’s financial ineptitude to new heights

Matthew Lynn 21 Oct 2023, 6:00am
The electric car revolution is set to get even more expensive

More spacious parking facilities will be needed because of the risk of fires

Matthew Lynn 18 Oct 2023, 7:00am
Ireland won’t be allowed to freeload on the global economy for much longer

Dublin’s wealth is poached from other countries

Matthew Lynn 16 Oct 2023, 5:25pm
Boots is just the latest disastrous foreign takeover of a British retailer

Our high streets are littered with proof that running a chain from thousands of miles away doesn’t work

Matthew Lynn 15 Oct 2023, 10:00am
Poland’s formidable rise won’t be tempered by election hostility

Surging GDP per capita has made it Europe's one real economic success

Matthew Lynn 14 Oct 2023, 6:00am