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In the last ten years the UK has subsidised pension saving by £481 billion. Wasn’t there a better use for that money?

Posted on March 1 2018

HM Revenue & Customs published new data on pension saving yesterday. I summarise it a follows (I stress, the totals on here are my additions):
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University pensions

Posted on January 19 2018

I was one of about 1,000 academics to sign this letter to the Times Higher Ed on university pensions: We write as senior academics to
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UK pension funds had a deficit of £76bn last year. Its time for radical action

Posted on January 5 2018

The FT has reported this morning that: The pension deficit of FTSE 350 companies fell by a combined £8bn ($11bn) during 2017 thanks to rising
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Why can’t the Welsh government promote a rail electrification bond?

Posted on July 23 2017

The Tories announced the scrapping of two major rail electrification schemes last week. One was the Midland main line. The other the Cardiff to Swansea
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The fundamental pension contract that should be at the heart of our macroeconomy

Posted on July 22 2017

I was asked yesterday if I would write about pensions as part of the series of blogs I have done over the last few weeks
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Nothing would restore confidence in pensions more than people seeing their cash paying for the new hospital they’ll use in old age

Posted on July 10 2017

The following article by me was published in the Observer on 14 July 2002. Not that much has changed since, and my sentiment remains largely
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To get young people to vote offer to write off student debt

Posted on May 9 2017

I was discussing the political economy last night. This is not especially surprising: it is something I am inclined to do. It so happened that
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Sir Philip Green provides the clearest possible evidence of the benefits of a strong state

Posted on March 7 2016

The FT has reported today that: The Pension Protection Fund is in talks with Sir Philip Green and British Home Stores that could see the
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George Osborne’s pension crisis in the making

Posted on September 17 2015

This is from the Guardian this morning: More than 200,000 people have emptied their pension pot or withdrawn cash from it after the relaxation of
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