If the Office for Budget Responsibility does not disclose that its forecasts are total nonsense when it knows that they are what is the point of it?
Wednesday, January 24th, 2024I have already commented on the dubious accounting of the Office for National Statistics this morning. So, let me now turn instead to the equally
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Public borrowing did not fall in December: the ONS just decided we owed no interest on index-linked bonds in the month
Wednesday, January 24th, 2024I did not give much attention yesterday to the claimed fall in public sector borrowing in December 2023. I did so overnight and found the
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How Rachel Reeves will find more than £50 billion a year for public spending
Wednesday, January 24th, 2024I was interviewed yesterday by a journalist who wanted to know what I thought Rachel Reeves might do with regard to business taxation, and corporation
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The Taxing Wealth Report 2024: an update
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024I have this morning published the latest note within the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. Unusually, and for the first time, this note suggests a change
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Neoliberalism kills
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024As the Guardian notes in a mail this morning: Before a vaccine for measles was created, there were regular epidemics that caused approximately 2.6 million
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When millions face fuel poverty we must redistribute more income and wealth in this country so that all have a chance of flourishing within it
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024As the Guardian is reporting this morning: More than 2 million people across the UK will be cut off from their gas and electricity this
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The Taxing Wealth Report: Abolishing the UK's student tax would cost £4 billion a year
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024I have this morning published the latest note in my series that will make up the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. This latest note suggests that the
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People want debt
Monday, January 22nd, 2024As the FT notes this morning: US corporate bond markets are “on fire” as companies have sold a record $150bn of debt since the start
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Aren't sanctions to force Netanyahu from office essential now?
Monday, January 22nd, 2024The FT has reported this morning that: The EU has urged member states to impose “consequences” on Israel if its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues
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