Sunak promoted everything that created a recession. It is his, by design.
Friday, February 16th, 2024The National newspaper in Scotland asked me for a reaction to the news that the UK was in recession yesterday. I had precisely fifteen minutes
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Recent suggestions from the Resolution Foundation make no macroeconomic sense
Wednesday, February 14th, 2024I noted a new report from the Resolution Foundation on Monday. In that report, that think tank suggested that maybe 30% of all households in
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Household analogies
Wednesday, February 14th, 2024I was reminded this morning of this comment in a review of the impartiality of BBC coverage of taxation, public spending, government borrowing and debt
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People are noticing that we have politics almost wholly disconnected from what people want or need
Monday, February 12th, 2024I don’t usually quote the Shropshire Star here, but they have a report this morning that says: [A] poll, carried out by Survation on behalf
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The fact that 30% of the UK population have savings of less than £1,000 is not their fault
Monday, February 12th, 2024The Resolution Foundation published a report this morning which suggests that at least 30% of UK households have savings of less than £1,000 and are,
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Tax and money flows within the economy
Monday, February 12th, 2024This post is the third of the three that relate to the economic ideas underpinning the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. The first was on tax
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Pragmatism as an exercise in hearing the music
Sunday, February 11th, 2024I listened to an interview Lewis Goodall did with union leader Mick Lynch yesterday and liked a lot of what Mick Lynch had to say.
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‘Revenue’ means to come back. Tax revenue quite literally recovers money already spent
Sunday, February 11th, 2024I noticed part of an old post of mine being cited on Twitter yesterday. It was as follows: This is fascinating. What it shows is the
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Labour is claiming that £28 billion of investment in climate change a year is not possible. But that's not true. That's Starmer's choice.
Friday, February 9th, 2024I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: Labour says it cannot now afford to spend £28 billion a year to deliver the investment in
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