Tory leadership hopefuls are playing a game of fantasy tax cuts and we'll all pay a heavy price for that
Sunday, July 10th, 2022I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: Tax cuts are in the news as Tory party leadership candidates are talking about them as if
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Questions for Tory Party leadership candidates
Saturday, July 9th, 2022I have just published this on Twitter: Questions for Tory Party leadership candidates, a thread to tease out what they really think: 1. Why did
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The OBR is wrong: we can afford to look after the elderly as this century progresses, but they need to adapt their economic models to reflect what the reality of doing so means for us all
Friday, July 8th, 2022In amongst yesterday’s excitement, a new report from the Office for Budget Responsibility was rather overlooked yesterday. As The Guardian said of it: Britain’s public
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Trump had his January 6. Johnson will want his date with destiny as well.
Thursday, July 7th, 2022As I mentioned this morning, whatever is said today is bound, to some degree, to be proved wrong by events quite quickly. But my sense,
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Prices are falling: if the Bank of England continues with interest rate rises it can only be because they want to create a recession
Thursday, July 7th, 2022IHS Markit, working with J P Morgan, has indicated this morning that: Global cost pressures eased in June, according to S&P Global’s PMI business survey
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The Bank of England is engaged in the most massive class warfare
Wednesday, July 6th, 2022I posted this thread on Twitter today in response to noises coming out of the Bank of England on the need for interest rate increases:
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The Tories economic plan is intended to deliver misery, disruption, chaos, and shattered lives
Monday, July 4th, 2022I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: Sunak and Johnson said yesterday that the Bank of England has to act to tackle inflation caused
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It’s time the government took centre stage in the economy, not least because the financial markets refuse to do so
Monday, July 4th, 2022The economic vision that I posted on Saturday has a longer underpinning (and I would argue, better) document that supports it, and from which it
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Shares in quoted companies are almost irrelevant to their funding so why do we let so much emphasis be placed on them?
Friday, July 1st, 2022I have long argued that the stock market is an almost irrelevant institution in UK corporate funding. Put imply, companies do not use equity share
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