Without falling interest rates the hopes for the UK economy are exceptionally bleak
Sunday, July 2nd, 2023As if evidence was required that the government has chosen that the UK’s people should suffer for Covid whilst landlords and banks (as noted in
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England’s water companies are ‘environmentally insolvent’, study says
Thursday, June 29th, 2023My report on England’s water companies has got into the Guardian:
England's water industry is environmentally insolvent
Thursday, June 29th, 2023I posted this thread on Twitter this morning. The report to which the thread relates is here. There has been much discussion about the likely
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Cut the crap: accounting for clean water
Thursday, June 29th, 2023I have mentioned in another post that I have a new report out today on the water industry. It has been worked on over months:
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Inflation is mainly down to profiteering. Any other suggestion is misinformation.
Wednesday, June 28th, 2023I mentioned a couple of days ago that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has concluded that the biggest contributor to inflation is profiteering by the
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The way to cure inflation is to cut the Bank of England base interest rate
Wednesday, June 21st, 2023I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: We face a cost of living crisis created by events outside the UK triggering rates of inflation
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Interest, profits, savings and growth, and why the Bank of England is trashing the economy by pushing rates up
Sunday, June 18th, 2023The following comment was posted on the blog last night. The person posting it used what was, very obviously, a false name and email address
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Where does the money go?
Wednesday, June 14th, 2023I was asked this question recently by an academic (wh is not an economist): Where is the best place to get an answer to this
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HMRC dissembled (at best) when proposing Making Tax Digital, as I exposed in 2017. Now it is time to end this fiasco.
Tuesday, June 13th, 2023As the FT noted yesterday: HM Revenue & Customs omitted key figures from its business case about how much its Making Tax Digital programme will
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