2018 May 15

The death of interest, inflation and the independent central bank

Posted on May 15 2018

I have used this chart before, and I do so again without apology. It comes from an IPPR report, but that’s irrelevant to the use
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It’s time for MPs to reject the UK’s failing political leadership and act in the interests of the country as a whole

Posted on May 15 2018

Jeremey Corbyn has made his Brexit position clear: he wants a hard Brexit and nothing less will do. If reports of a meeting of the Parliamentary
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On the irrelevance of a supposedly independent central bank

Posted on May 15 2018

Whilst on a train home last night, after an evening discussing macroeconomic policy, it occurred to me that the Bank of England now has as
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