I should be writing today (note to my editor: apologies) but I will be speaking at the FT Festival of Finance on wealth taxation, tax havens and other issues this afternoon.
Moderation during the day may be erratic as a result.
There are no speaker's notes from me: the themes will be similar to ones I discussed at the World Bank recently.
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FT Festival of Finance, the mind boggles. Bring on the dancing brokers.
Which stage are they on?
Laughing: perhaps its my arts background but I read that as FT Festival of Dance (mental equivalent of predictive text).
Festival of Finance sounds somehow oxymoronic! haven’t we had 40 years of a festival of finance which we prefer to call neo-liberalism?
(Images of Richard and entourage tap dancing to ‘Putting On The Ritz.’)
Not quite
I’m always be interested in hearing feedback as to how you think your ideas and observations are received at events like this.
We’ll see
A reminder of my early childhood; on the pyramid stage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq7DGvfnr3U
Well as far as I can see the financial markets are having a real festival now they think there will be even more publicly funded QE and interest rates held at rock bottom or even lower!
So much for doom and gloom for the City after Brexit?
My office backs on to the HAC grounds – will be waving to you
Osborne is doing a wriggle dance:
“Chancellor George Osborne has abandoned his target to restore government finances to a surplus by 2020.”
All the excuses are there now so it was a good time to abandon what was not possible without turning the whole country into something resembling the surface of the moon.
Where’s Labour to challenge the incompetent bastard? Ah…it’s tearing itself apart trying to be Tory Lite again…silly me. Good moment for Osborne let the cat out of the bag.
(Returns to doing Laughing Policeman rendition).
Still wondering how it went? Is neoliberalism becoming less popular? I just heard one of your colleagues Anastasia Nesvetailova debating a classic neoliberal economist (sorry I forgot his name Sir someone so doffed cap!) on the Today Program. Looked like business as usual in neoliberal terms.
Blog coming