Given the choice, people want tax increases
Tuesday, July 2nd, 2024The abrdn Financial Fairness Trust has issued a new report suggesting that: As the nation prepares to go to the polls, new research shows people
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Labour should be putting the UK's savings to use instead of turning to foreign capital
Monday, July 1st, 2024The Bank of England has reported this morning that: Household deposits with banks and building societies rose by £5.3 billion in May. This was driven
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Big business ad financial markets love the far-right
Monday, July 1st, 2024The far-right has won the French general election, so far. The result? The euro has gone up in value and the French stock exchange has
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Supporting a failing status quo is not a strategy. It’s a recipe for failure
Monday, July 1st, 2024It would be foolish to ignore the thirty four per cent of French voters who have voted for fascists in the first round of the
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Why does society hate thinkers?
Saturday, June 29th, 2024This morning’s short video has now been published. In it, I argue that thinkers exist to upset people. That’s what “thinking outside the box” will
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The Bank of England is going to make us pay a price for democracy
Friday, June 28th, 2024As the Guardian notes this morning: Uncertainty caused by a global wave of elections, starting this weekend in France, risks destabilising the UK’s financial system, the Bank
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Economics is not alchemy
Thursday, June 27th, 2024I have posted a new video this morning. In it, I argue that there is no magic to any government finding the money to do
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Most people are left wing
Wednesday, June 26th, 2024I have published a new video this morning. In it, I argue that we might have had fourteen years of right-wing government in the UK,
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For once the IFS are on the same side - by keeping a significant distance from Labour's dire economic plans
Tuesday, June 25th, 2024I have been pleased to hear Paul Johnson and Carl Emerson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies criticise both the Labour and Conservative parties’ economic
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