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Kamala’s bringing joy and seriousness back to American politics
The Kamala Hype Machine is on over-drive and it is bringing such joy to my life.
 • Lucy Shaw
Prisoners to petrol: why Americans only drive hydrogen vehicles in California
Remember that classic game theory problem, the prisoner’s dilemma?
 • Lucy Shaw
Are toll roads really the “fairest” way to finance infrastructure?
I can’t fault Bloomberg columnists for talking their book.
 • Lucy Shaw
Eat the Rich Part 2: no more [low-tax] carry for PE bros
The humble private equity investor is compensated in myriad ways.
 • Lucy Shaw
Eat the rich: an explainer on non-doms and upcoming tax changes
Get enough Harvard Business School alums together and one of them will surely bring up taxes.
 • Lucy Shaw
Why do we even have private infrastructure?
This is part of a series on the Labour Party’s Great British Energy policy. Part 1 introduces the conundrum of whether the private sector is to blame…
 • Lucy Shaw
UK Export Finance and Energy Infrastructure
This is part of a series on how the UK could use its foreign policy to promote British energy and infrastructure companies, develop strategic…
 • Lucy Shaw
UK Aid and Infrastructure
This is a shorter piece today, but will likely form part of a longer piece on the UK’s energy-related foreign policy and how the FCDO and trade…
 • Lucy Shaw
The US rejects cheaper low-carbon energy
If only the energy transition weren’t so expensive, they say, our planet would be saved.
 • Lucy Shaw
The tax man dines at Kenya’s Java House
My favourite Java House is at Wilson Airport, a haven for calming my nerves before the perilous flying-coffin journeys to the Kenyan coast or…
 • Lucy Shaw
Miss an emissions target? More people want your green bonds, apparently
Companies can’t be trusted to do good for the world if left solely to their own profit-hungry devices, or so the wisdom of “ESG” investing goes. What…
 • Lucy Shaw
Street Macro: capital controls
“Original Sin” and “The Impossible Trinity” evoke biblical imagery of difficult choices and devilish corruption.
 • Lucy Shaw
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