Byline: Thomas Aubrey

Thomas is founder of Credit Capital Advisory and was director of CPP’s predecessor, the Centre for Progressive Capitalism. He previously ran credit and economic analytics businesses serving as the managing director of Fitch Solutions and Thomson Datastream. He has written widely on financial and economic issues including Profiting from Monetary Policy (Palgrave 2012) and co-authored Prediction Markets: The end of the regulatory state? (2007) with Professor Frank Vibert.

How the government’s housing white paper could transform infrastructure investment and solve the housing crisis

Sajid Javid has made it clear that building more homes is his top priority. So what can we expect in his white paper later this month? Recent comments by Gavin Barwell suggest the government is focussed on finding a system that can fund the necessary infrastructure to pave the way for larger scale housebuilding while avoiding conflicts that can make schemes unviable. A housing white paper that finally addressed Britain’s feeble levels of infrastructure investment by tweaking the Land Compensation Act would be transformational

Sajid Javid has made it clear that building more homes is his top priority. So what can we expect in his white paper later this month? Recent comments by Gavin Barwell suggest the government is focussed on finding a system that can fund the necessary infrastructure to pave the way for larger scale housebuilding while avoiding conflicts that can make schemes unviable. A housing white paper that finally addressed Britain’s feeble levels of infrastructure investment by tweaking the Land Compensation Act would be transformational.

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How the chancellor can boost infrastructure investment by £180bn

The chancellor should change the way the uplift in land values from infrastructure investment is captured to help boost investment by £180bn over the next 20 years and to make the economy work for everyone

The chancellor should change the way the uplift in land values from infrastructure investment is captured to help boost investment by £180bn over the next 20 years and to make the economy work for everyone

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Britain’s failed skills policies not the fall in sterling is the real crisis

The shock of Brexit and the current fall in sterling has highlighted that Britain’s economic model has been broken for some time

The shock of Brexit and the current fall in sterling has highlighted that Britain’s economic model has been broken for some time. To take advantage of the current predicament which will see lower levels of purchasing power will require a clear industrial strategy to focus on skills, and thereafter monetary policy

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Churchill knew how to solve the housing crisis

Writing for Prospect, Centre for Progressive Capitalism director Thomas Aubrey argues that the answer to Britain’s housing crisis lies in land value capture, something that Winston Churchill wrote about

Writing for Prospect, Centre for Progressive Capitalism director Thomas Aubrey argues that the answer to Britain’s housing crisis lies in land value capture, something that Winston Churchill wrote about.

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The explosive concoction of globalisation and the rising cost of housing

For people’s basic needs to be provided in an era of globalisation, wages need to be rising at faster rates than housing costs. But Britain has continually failed to address its dysfunctional housing market and build sufficient homes

For people’s basic needs to be provided in an era of globalisation, wages need to be rising at faster rates than housing costs. But Britain has continually failed to address its dysfunctional housing market and build sufficient homes

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Britain’s housebuilding targets are like iron production estimates in Mao’s China

Politicians keep setting ambitious targets for housebuilding but rates remain far below the desired levels

Politicians keep setting ambitious targets for housebuilding but rates remain far below the desired levels

During the Great Leap Forward, provincial governors in China exaggerated the amount of iron each province was producing in order to please Chairman Mao. As long as iron production estimates rose, Mao seemed content. Sadly for China this approach did little for actual iron output, which fell instead of rising. It wasn’t until 1964 that output reached the levels achieved in 1958.

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Report: Bridging the infrastructure gap

A report on financing infrastructure investment to unlock housing

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Financing infrastructure investment to unlock housing

Infrastructure is a key element of the enabling environment to increase economic growth. Access to infrastructure such as energy and transport greatly influences the productivity of private investment and an economy’s competitiveness. Moreover, physical infrastructure plays a central role in fulfilling the ambitions of citizens including the ability to live in an affordable, good quality home that is reasonably close to their place of work.

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Improving trust in business across Europe

Writing in European magazine E!Sharp, Thomas Aubrey cites research showing falling levels of trust in business across Europe

Writing in European magazine E!Sharp, our director Thomas Aubrey cites research showing that the gap in trust in business between the elites or “informed public” – defined as those with a college education and a top quartile income – and the rest of the mass population has been widening over the last few years.

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Pre-distribution and monetary policy

Central banks’ drive to stabilise inflation in an increasingly globalised world has distorted the distribution of income

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