To what extent has the current inflation been engineered by those desperate to increase interest rates and to reimpose austerity?
Wednesday, February 16th, 2022There is new inflation data out this morning from the Office for National Statistics. This is their chart for CPIH inflation: I am, of course,
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The operations of the Big 4 accountants within tax havens are a threat to democracy, so why won't they close them down?
Monday, February 14th, 2022There is an interesting thread from Tom Tugendhat MP on Twitter. He is, of course, a Tory and chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee. He
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Why progressives have to understand money
Monday, February 14th, 2022Peter May, who is largely responsible for the Progressive Pulse blog (which I direct) posted this comment on this blog yesterday, and I thought it
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What I want is a politics rooted in reality
Sunday, February 13th, 2022I made clear my position with regard to those from the left seeking to support those who harassed and intimidated Keir Starmer earlier this week.
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A just transition to net zero is easily affordable
Friday, February 11th, 2022My Finance for the Future partner, Colin Hines, has this letter on the work we are doing in The Guardian this morning: Business Green’s editor,
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The UK needs a new tax politics
Friday, February 11th, 2022HM Revenue & Customs is under fire from the Public Accounts Committee this morning, and rightly so. In a new report they say: HMRC ignorance
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The last thing we need is more auto-enrolment of those on low pay in pension schemes that do not benefit them or society
Thursday, February 10th, 2022As the FT has noted this morning: Pension providers have called on the government to reform workplace pension entry rules after official analysis found hundreds of
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BP, profits and windfall taxes
Tuesday, February 8th, 2022There is nothing like an oil company when it comes to unreliable profit reporting, and BP’s gain today is partly because it wrote off so
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Reversing QE could be a recipe for economic disaster
Sunday, February 6th, 2022I have just posted this rather long thread on Twitter. If you think it too long to read the summary is that reversing QE could
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