How to fund Labour’s £28 billion spending plan, and more
Tuesday, June 13th, 2023My Green New Deal Group and Finance for the Future colleague, Colin Hines, has this letter in the Guardian this morning: Your editorial (9 June)
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The Treasury should be on Covid trial alongside Johnson and Sunak
Sunday, June 4th, 2023As The Observer notes this morning: Rishi Sunak is facing a barrage of criticism in the run-up to the official Covid-19 inquiry as a leading
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The Bank of England is working the economy towards the recession it wants
Friday, June 2nd, 2023The Bank of England Money and Credit report for April noted some quite surprising facts. I quote from their summary, starting with mortgages: Borrowing of
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Our universities are just a part of Broken Britain
Thursday, June 1st, 2023This is from the Guardian this morning: University Vice Chancellors (who, as a group, are by far the biggest winners from the current system of
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Suppose we have an interest rate / inflation spiral now, and it’s been created by the Bank of England?
Sunday, May 28th, 2023I wrote this tweet yesterday: Suppose we have the highest inflation except for Argentina and South Sudan because the Bank of England has forced companies
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Why the ICAEW has an issue with its strategic reserves
Sunday, May 28th, 2023The Mail on Sunday has covered the report I have published today on the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales’s hoarding of the
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The Bank of England sold £24.8 billion of bonds in the first three months of this year just to force up interest rates
Saturday, May 27th, 2023The media is concentrating on the supposed efforts being made by the Bank of England to control inflation but which are actually intended to increase
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Rachel Reeves needs to develop some decent ideas very quickly
Thursday, May 25th, 2023Shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves MP, explained her vision for the UK economy to the Peterson Institute in Washington DC, yesterday. You can watch the whole
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Failure in the UK is plain to see
Thursday, May 25th, 2023These four items were all headlines in this morning’s Guardian newspaper business newsletter: In turn we get: The exploitation of a public necessity – water
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