The UK pension system is built on a false idea: that savings and financial assets can guarantee security in old age. In this video, I
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There are a whole host of reports in the media this morning about Rachel Reeves, the International Monetary Fund, the change to the UK’s circumstances
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Just about everything you have been told about stock markets and the UK economy is wrong. Politicians talk nonsense about stock markets. Financial advisors repeat
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Your savings are dead money. That’s the uncomfortable truth about how money works that politicians don’t want you to understand. In this video, I explain
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People assume pensions are “saved money” — a pot with their name on it, safely invested for the future. They aren’t. In this video, I
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The FT has published an article with the headline: Can Europe still afford its generous state pensions? At the core of the argument the piece
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Rachel Reeves will not fix Britain today. So I’ve published my Alternative Budget for 2025 — a complete plan to end austerity, rebuild public services,
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It’s important to be reminded what right-wing thinking about Britain really is every now and again. The reason is that in recent decades, where right-wing
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This came from an email from The Economist yesterday: Today Gita Gopinath, a former chief economist of the IMF, sounds a warning. In a guest
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