The furore about the use of a personal service company to supply the services of the director of the Student Loan Company is appropriate. It
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This is a video just released of me talking a couple of weeks ago with Ross Ashcroft of the Renegade Economist about the state of
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I’m pleased to note that at least one major economist realises that public debt owned by the central bank of the government that issued that debt isn’t
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Over the last week I’ve been arguing that the government gilt purchases made under the quantitative easing programme effectively cancel that debt. Being realistic, as the IFS predict,
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International Tax Review is carrying an exclusive interview with whistleblower Ruedi Elmer in which he talks about his experiences as chief operating officer for Swiss bank Julius Bär
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I have noted that when my explanation of why the UK owes much less debt (see also here) than the Tories claim was posted on the
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Last week a wrote a blog explaining why all the data being published about government borrowing is wrong. We haven’t right now got government borrowing
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I admit I have not read all the IFS Green Budget, published this morning. This is the core of the fiscal forecast: You can ignore
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As Larry Elliott has noted this morning in the Guardian another round of  quantitative easing is now almost inevitable as money supply has fallen in
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