The Brent crude price chart per barrel, expressed in dollars, is always interesting, and this was the view from the FT last night: The recent
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Infographic: The Finance Curse
To support this morning’s podcast, I have written this infographic: How to expand this image If you press CTRL or Command and Plus (+) on
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The Finance Curse: Is the City making Britain poorer?
For decades we have been told that Britain’s prosperity depends upon the success of the City of London. Politicians celebrate financial services, economists praise the
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Fleecing people, one step at a time
As The Guardian reported this week: The Trump administration has refunded about $100bn from the tariffs it collected before the US Supreme Court ruled them illegal,
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Is the US economy shrinking?
News released in the USA yesterday suggests that Donald Trump is not getting everything that he desires from his Department of Labor. That desire is
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Understanding economics: a new video series
I mentioned a few days ago that I was planning a video series that would, over time, provide an introduction to many of the key
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Understanding Economics: What is economics?
Most people think economics is about money. It isn’t. Economics is about how society organises itself to meet people’s needs and help everyone thrive. In
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Is the London Stock Exchange irrelevant now?
As rarely as looking at a stopped clock when it is telling the right time, the Daily Telegraph does sometimes have an interesting message to
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Medicine, autonomy, urgency and the politics of care
My recent hopes that my kidney stone had gone away have turned out to be misplaced. My latest tests show that I do, in fact,
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