I just tweeted this: The UK's suffering a labour shortage. There are four causes. a) Covid deaths b) Long Covid c) People not working because
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The Office for National Statistics issued its latest survey on average weekly wages this morning. I offer two key charts here: That looks reassuring. Except,
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As the FT has reported: Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey on Monday said he was unable to stop UK inflation hitting 10 per cent
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The poverty of Tory thinking is going to be very clearly on display this afternoon. Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England, is going
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From the Telegraph this morning: Seriously, what did they expect? Thatcher knew there was a such a thing as society, and she set out to
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As The Guardian reports this morning: A group of 58 leading economists and politicians, including the former business minister Vince Cable, has written to the chancellor
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I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: I keep reading that we are going to suffer stagflation in the UK. That’s possible, I agree.
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Adam Posen, a former and still influential member of the Bank of England monetary policy committee has been arguing this week that the Bank’s base
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I spoke this week at a conference organised by PricewaterhouseCoopers on the legitimacy of tax systems. The conference was held under the Chatham House rule
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