Is a crash likely? The uncomfortable answer is ‘yes’
Monday, January 11th, 2021There were two articles in the Guardian yesterday that drew attention to the risk of a financial bubble bursting sometime soon. Larry Elliott wrote one
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If you aren’t seething now you bloody well should be, and soon
Saturday, January 9th, 2021I published this on Twitter this morning, because it is true that I am in partial denial at the ghastliness that is, inevitably, going to
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The paralysis of political decision making has to be addressed or the climate crisis will overwhelm us
Tuesday, January 5th, 2021One of the things that should be obvious about the Covid 19 crisis has been how relatively easy it has been to get data, and
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2021 - The political forecast
Monday, January 4th, 2021Knowing that political forecasts are even more of a mug’s game than economic forecasts, and having already done the latter, let me risk reputation and
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A forecast for 2021
Monday, January 4th, 2021The FT has this morning published its annual forecasts based on a survey of 90 economists. I thought I would offer my view on key
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2021 requires political vision that seems to be absent in Westminster
Sunday, January 3rd, 2021It is now apparent that 2021 is going to be much harder in the UK than anyone might have expected, even a few weeks ago.
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2021 will be volatile
Thursday, December 31st, 2020I have reviewed the last year, both from the perspective of this blog and from that of the political economy. But what of 2021? Knowing
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2020: what a year
Wednesday, December 30th, 2020I have already reviewed 2020 from the perspective of Tax Research UK, but the wider perspective is worthy of comment, if only as the groundwork
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2020 was bad and now the government seems determined to make 2021 worse
Wednesday, December 16th, 2020If there is an easier definition of successfully being in power than ‘making unpopular decisions, and having the ability to justify them’ then I am
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