Neoliberalism is seeking to destroy our economy: we're going to have to stop it
Sunday, October 9th, 2022I posted this thread on Twitter yesterday evening: The Bank of England is widely expected to raise its interest rates again soon. If central bankers
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Truss neither understands growth or the steps required to deliver it
Thursday, October 6th, 2022I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: Liz Truss put growth at the epicentre of her policy and political narratives yesterday. It is the
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Strong public services require the support of strong, progressive taxation
Wednesday, October 5th, 2022This is out this morning. The spin on funding in the Tweet is not quite how I put it when recording, but is aimed at
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The personal isolation of neoliberalism has to be consigned to history: we need to live in a participatory democracy again
Tuesday, October 4th, 2022I posted this thread on Twitter this lunchtime (other work having got in the way before then): The Truss government is failing. Extraordinarily it has
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Is Truss signalling that she wants flat taxes for the UK?
Sunday, October 2nd, 2022I heard Liz Truss say to Laura Kuenssberg that she wanted a simpler UK tax system this morning. I immediately tweeted this: Then I noticed
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The best hope is that the Tories will boot Truss out. Otherwise, disaster looms.
Saturday, September 24th, 2022The morning after Kwasi Kwarteng’s non-budget it is hard to write an objective appraisal because there was nothing objective about it. The fact that it
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Only modern monetary theory can save the economy from Trussonomics
Friday, September 23rd, 2022I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: Over the next year the government is going to run a deficit. If we look at the
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Today's rate rise from the Bank of England will be callous, misguided and wholly unnecessary
Thursday, September 22nd, 2022I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: The Bank of England will increase its base interest rate today. It may do so by 0.5%.
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It's time for a radical shake up of the Monetary Policy Committee
Wednesday, September 21st, 2022Larry Elliott reported the proposal Danny Blanchflower and I made last week for reform of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee in the Guardian
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