Ross Heard

Ross Heard is an economics student and writer. He has written articles for the Nottingham Economic Review, and was this year shortlisted for the Oliver Pawle Essay Prize for Economics.

The great biofuel greenwash

The petroleum giants have been pushing a wave of biofuel advertising. But the nature of such fuel is complex, and under Big Oil, all too easily descends into greenwashing.

By Ross Heard

/ 15 Aug 2013

QE: a timeline of quantitative easing in the US

Bernanke and the Fed are under mounting pressure for further action; with Operation Twist at an end and much of the rest of the economic toolkit exhausted, is the next option as simple as QE5, or no?

By Ross Heard

/ 6 Jul 2013