by David Boyle | 23 January 2014 | Blog
The news emerged yesterday that the successful publisher Quercus is now up for sale because, according to co-founder Mark Smith, “the publishing industry seems to be polarising around very big and very small companies. It’s difficult for companies of our...
by David Boyle | 16 January 2014 | Blog
There is a political trend emerging, and it has been a long time coming. Ed Miliband is calling tomorrow for a more diverse banking system. We know his office has been considering an American-style Community Reinvestment Act, which forces the big banks to set up...
by David Boyle | 3 January 2014 | Blog
This is the first blog post of 2014, and along comes an opportunity to write about one of New Weather’s objectives for the year ahead – beginning to set out the parameters of a new kind of measurement system for public services which doesn’t actively...
by David Boyle | 1 January 2014 | Projects, What we've done
Our associate David Boyle has been working with Baroness Kramer in the House of Lords (before she went into government) to develop implementable approaches to creating a new local banking infrastructure in the UK. You can read the results here (Re-banking pdf), and...
by David Boyle | 16 December 2013 | Blog
Let me start with a rather important paragraph, with apologies for the jargon. “The Commission concludes the CRA was not a significant factor in subprime lending or the crisis. Many subprime lenders were not subject to the CRA. Research indicates only 6% of high-cost...
