Angela Eagle launched her candidacy for the Labour Party leadership today. She published this statement. I would love to say I can find a policy
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Theresa May has stolen the idea of People’s Quantitative Easing
The FT has just reported Theresa May’s speech on her effective promotion to prime minister in which they report she said: In a series of
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Negative interest rates are not the real answer: a Green New Deal is
This week the Bank of England is very likely to reduce interest rates. It might also resume conventional QE. Neither will work. They are failed
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Time for a CGT hike and an investment income surcharge to tackle a booming stock exchange?
This is the FTSE 100 this morning, at an 11 month high: Why is that? Three things. Record low interest rates. An expectation that rates
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Disclosing a one page summary is not publishing a tax return
I was noted in the Guardian as saying yesterday, in the context of the publication of tax information by Andrea Leadsom: This isn’t her tax
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Devo-max with an unaccountable English central bank is a recipe for a Euro style disaster
The Guardian reported last night that: The governance of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should be reinvented within a new voluntary union in a bid
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