Alex Wickham, who is usually a reliable source of economic data and who is based at Bloomberg, has suggested that information he has received indicates
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The leaders of the SNP, Plaid Cymru and Sinn Féin signed this agreement yesterday: Since the text is a little small, I’ll highlight two sections.
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On Saturday, I wrote a piece entitled What is labour was not a cost? It generated a lot of comments, including one noting that I had
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Interest rate markets are in turmoil. Government bond yields are rising, inflation fears are growing, and financial markets are demanding higher returns. But there is
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A reader of this blog recently asked me a question that I suspect quite a few people have wondered about: How do you find the
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Martin Wolf has written in the Financial Times today about the difficult choices facing John Healey as he prepares for his October Budget. Wolf argues
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In my opinion, if we want to understand government finances, the last people we should ask are businesspeople and the City of London. That might
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What if one of the biggest problems with conventional economics is that it misunderstands human beings? Mainstream economic theory frequently starts from the assumption that
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