Lombard Street Research is a macroeconomic forecasting consultancy located in London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

). LSR seeks to provide an 'Independent. Objective. Unbiased' approach to macroeconomic research and concentrates on providing information to the corporate/financial services segment of the research market. As well as research the LSR also hosts a series of seminars in many major financial centres, with both its own economists and guest speakers. It is a strong believer in broad money and credit developments and in market deregulation. The chief economist and chairman is Charles Dumas.

LSR was founded in 1989 by Tim Congdon

Tim Congdon

Tim G. Congdon CBE ) is an economist, educated at Colchester Royal Grammar School and St. John's and Nuffield colleges at the University of Oxford, with a long record of commenting on public policy issues, including writing sympathetically about the monetarist approach to macroeconomic policy...

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