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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Tax transparency in Bloomberg
Friday, September 30th, 2022The work I have been doing on tax transparency with Professor Andrew Baker on behalf of the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency, which is partnered
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A recovery plan for the UK economy
Friday, September 30th, 2022I posted this twitter thread from Danny Blanchflower and myself this morning: As I mentioned last evening, @d_blanchflower and I talked last night about what
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We need a revolution
Thursday, September 29th, 2022I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: Six days after Kwarteng gave the worst budget in living memory, where are we? A summary thread…
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What now for Trussonomics?
Wednesday, September 28th, 2022I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: The shape of Trussonomics is becoming clearer. Assuming she survives in office, which given how unpopular she
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Stephanie Kelton on tax and modern monetary theory
Wednesday, September 28th, 2022I would recommend anyone who reads here also subscribe to Stephanie Kelton’s blog on Substack. Stephanie wrote this on MMT ( modern monetary theory) and
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Liz Truss has proved she can make unpopular decisions
Tuesday, September 27th, 2022I think we can all agree that Liz Truss has proved she can make unpopular decisions. Crashing the pound isn’t going down well with anyone,
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Without QE, or simple government money creation, Kwarteng is heading us for the rocks very, very fast
Monday, September 26th, 2022This was the FT’s UK homepage on its email listing this morning: The FT thinks the UK is in trouble. They also think Truss and
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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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