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Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024Apologies for the odd title, but that figure happens to be the number of words in the final version of the full Taxing Wealth Report
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People do not know what fiscal rules are, so why is Labour fixating on them?
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024I did another Twitter poll yesterday, this time on a decidedly relevant economic theme: All the usual sample selection warnings apply, although this time I
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It takes considerable inability to get so much, so wrong, so often, but the Bank of England has achieved it.
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024As the Guardian reports this morning: [Retail] industry figures show prices rose at an annual rate of 1.3% in March, down from a rate of
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I am not convinced that we are facing any good electoral outcome this year
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024As has been my habit for the last few days, and as might well be the case for many days to come, I posted a
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Smelling the coffee
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024As the FT noted in its Lex column yesterday: First chocolate, now coffee — the supply of modern life’s necessities is being squeezed by a
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Norfolk sky
Monday, April 1st, 2024Good birdwatching at WWT Welney this morning. The black tailed godwits looked glorious. Six little gulls, dunlin, redshank and oystercatcher added to the mix. There
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Fixing the date of Easter
Monday, April 1st, 2024I posted this poll on Twitter yesterday, thinking it topical: Take it as read that I know all the problems with selection bias in Twitter
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March 2024 is a record month for this blog
Sunday, March 31st, 2024Sometime this morning I celebrated (with a coffee) the moment when this blog had its best ever month in terms of traffic. The previous best
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Oxford needs to wake up and smell the shit
Sunday, March 31st, 2024I watched both boat races yesterday. Why? Because I wanted Cambridge to won. They do, after all, train in my home city of Ely on
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