The Financial Times has reported that billionaire Peter Hargreaves, co-founder of Hargreaves Lansdown, has warned against increasing taxes on wealthy people because, he says, Britain
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I noted over this summer that we appeared to be having a traffic downturn on this blog and elsewhere. I discussed this with other people
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The poll I put up here yesterday on proposed changes to the UK state old-age pension suggested by a think tank linked to Reform was
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Is the UK facing a government debt interest crisis? More than £100 billion a year is now being spent on debt interest, and this is
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The Guardian newspaper reported this week that: A thinktank linked to Reform UK has called for the abolition of the state pension and £75bn worth
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This post is part of an ongoing series in which I set out my views on significant issues in economics, political economy, politics, taxation, and
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There is a saying, attributed to Einstein but probably apocryphally, that keeping on doing something and hoping that you get a better outcome next time
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A commentator on this blog asked me what the Ways and Means Account was yesterday. I thought the best way to respond was to create
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Workers in Britain and the United States are getting a smaller share of national income than they did decades ago. That is not simply a
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