Sky News is reporting that Rachel Reeves has signed off on proposals to loosen the bank ring-fencing regime, with a formal announcement expected as early
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Introducing Debate Ammunition
I introduced the new ‘Richard Murphy’ View On’ series here yesterday. The first was on modern monetary theory This morning we have another new idea.
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How Reform can be challenged
The second part of my three-part series on Reform is out this morning on Substack. You can find it here. Please give the process of
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Why inheritance tax proves Britain is grotesquely unequal
The Financial Times has published remarkable data on inheritance tax in the UK. Just five London parliamentary constituencies paid more inheritance tax than the whole
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This could be as bad as 1929, and maybe very much worse
As Katie Martin has noted in the FT this morning, there is something exceptionally strange going on in the world’s financial markets at the moment,
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The challenge from Reform, and related issues
I have already mentioned one possible development in our publishing activity this morning, providing an explanation here, and publishing the first in what might be
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Richard Murphy’s View on Modern Monetary Theory
This is the first in a new series of posts, planned for either this blog or our Substack site, that explains my views on key
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Introducing the ‘Richard Murphy’s View on’ series and related topics
As will become apparent from posts I will be making here over the next few days, a lot of agonising and thought has gone into
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What happens when superpowers can’t win wars?
Three of the world’s most powerful militaries are simultaneously stuck in conflicts they cannot win. Russia has not defeated Ukraine after four years. America has
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