As I, but apaprently no one else expected, inflation fell in December. The Office for National Statistics has reported the following this morning: The Consumer
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The rich aren’t spending enough. This is another view on that idea, which I promoted here not long ago. It’s a few years old now,
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It became clear yesterday that Rachel Reeves’ mad trip to China, accompanied by Andrew Bailey, who is Governor of the Bank of England, will raise
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Reform has proposed a Bill in parliament that would destroy the ability of the UK government to create money. Worse still, it wants us to
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When I began this blog, if a Treasury minister had enjoyed the benefit of a flat owned by an offshore trust it is very unlikely
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Reform might be intent on crashing the economy, our society and even country, but it seems that the people of the UK want that to
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As I noted in an article I wrote for The National yesterday, I responded to Keir Starmer’s enthusiasm for AI by asking ChatGPT to do
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As Politico reports in the USA this morning: Donald Trump has not been exonerated for his “unprecedented criminal effort” to subvert the 2020 election and
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The UK economy need not be stuck in a rut. It’s Rachel Reeves’ choice that it is. If only she demanded lower interest rates from
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