After a week in which I can fairly describe work as being hard because of the fatigue I felt last weekend, which it now turns
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War is not a reason to raise interest rates
The Bank of England meets on 19 March to decide on interest rates. Many commentators now say rates cannot fall because war in the Middle
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Corruption is built into neoliberalism
I recently recorded another Funding the Future podcast with John Christensen, with whom I have discussed tax justice and corruption for more than twenty-five years.
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SEND for the bankers
As The Guardian noted yesterday: Rachel Reeves is under pressure to reassure MPs over the state of the UK’s public finances, amid concerns that the
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Teetering…
As the FT notes this morning: Tech stocks had a bad day yesterday. So did markets in general. Amazingly, markets apparently realised that AI might
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The finance curse is killing Britain
Why does Britain feel poorer, more unequal and less productive than it should be? In this Funding the Future podcast, I speak with John Christensen,
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Will Trump’s crypto bubble crash?
Bitcoin has halved in value since October, and this is not a routine market correction. It is a crash. In this video, I explain why
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Kevin Warsh: a disaster in the making
As Chris Giles notes in the FT today with regard to the nomination of Kevin Warsh as the new Chair of the Federal Reserve (which
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The day of the dollar: is it over?
Is the US dollar losing the trust required of a global reserve currency? The dollar isn’t just America’s currency. It is the plumbing of global
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