My old friend, Larry Elliott, is in The Guardian today saying: To make a real difference, [Burnham and Healey] need to tackle head-on the nostrums
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AI could cost you a fortune, and not because of the price of a ChatGPT subscription. The AI investment boom is drawing enormous amounts of
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The madness of raising interest rates to tackle inflation caused by the war in the Gulf continues worldwide. As The Guardian reports this morning: The
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As I say on fiscal rules in the glossary to this blog: Fiscal rules are targets set by governments to limit borrowing, debt, or deficits
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Neoliberalism promised us prosperity, security and freedom through markets. Increasingly, it is delivering insecurity instead. So what does it have left to offer? Fear. And
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Martin Wolf used his FT column this morning to demand that Labour increase taxes in this country. He did not do so to address the
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According to the FT, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey will claim today that, and I quote, “Britain is about to enter “a new
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The FT has this headline this morning: The claim is then made that: [The] S&P Global’s Purchasing Managers’ Index on Wednesday, … surprised Wall Street
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As The Guardian and every other newspaper in the UK, and many other countries around the world, have reported this morning: Manchester City have been
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