Andrew Baker of Queen’s University Belfast posted a couple of comments over the weekend that I held back and, with his permission, post now as
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The latest report from the Bank of England on the scale of cash usage in the UK economy has opened an intriguing question on UK
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I mentioned yesterday how hard it would be for the Bank of England to get rid of cash, as Andy Haldane has suggested might be
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I referred this morning to Bank of England chief economist Andy Haldane’s idea that the Bank of England abolish cash to enforce negative interest rates
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Bank of England chief economist Andy Haldane’s speech in Northern Ireland yesterday was a bit of a revelation. Let’s summarise his thinking (as I see
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I hope Geoff Tily at the TUC will forgive me for borrowing these bits from an excellent blog post by him (of which there is more,
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I am aware that some, including national newspapers, are getting very exercised by the fact that I suggest that when the government spends it is
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As the Guardian and other papers have reported: Interest rates in the UK could be cut further from their record low level, the Bank of
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This year it’s from 5th to 8th November. Guess what I’ll be talking about?