A budget for tinkering as the economy sinks
Wednesday, March 15th, 2023Having listened to the budget with the main intention of talking about it on Radio 2 immediately after the Chancellor sat down, and having since
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Whatever Hunt does today will be tinkering at the edges of a budget that will offer the continuation of the UK’s economic decline
Wednesday, March 15th, 2023It is Budget Day. As a consequence I will be in Jeremy Vine’s BBC Radio 2 studio at about 13.30 today, discussing the budget as
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Fiat currency
Wednesday, March 15th, 2023Of the latest batch of new glossary items I have posted about this morning the most important for many readers of the blog may be
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Fiscal rules, fiscal space and fiscal choice: the mumbo jumbo that disguises a Chancellor who has no idea what they are doing
Tuesday, March 14th, 2023I have posted three new items to the glossary this morning, all in time for tomorrow’s budget. They are on: Fiscal rules Fiscal choices Fiscal
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Money creation
Tuesday, March 14th, 2023I published this glossary entry on money creation on Sunday. Does it work? Are there suggestions for improvements? Comments are welcome: In a fiat currency
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What is fascism?
Sunday, March 12th, 2023I was asked recently to add a definition of fascism to the glossary and in light of the current debate felt it useful to do
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There is a mortgage crisis in the UK - entirely as a result of wholly mistaken government economic policy
Friday, March 10th, 2023According to the FCA – the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority – mortgage stress in the UK is growing. New data that they have issued today
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Trying ChatGPT
Wednesday, March 8th, 2023Several discussions off the artificial intelligence (AI) app, ChatGPT, have arisen in the comments on this blog so I amused myself by trying it yesterday.
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You cannot create change by keeping the system that delivered failure in place. Until Labout realises that it has no chance of delivering what this country wants.
Tuesday, February 28th, 2023Lost amongst yesterday’s Northern Ireland deal was Keir Starmer’s speech on how he is going to deliver the highest rate of growth in the G7
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