The quality of UK financial commentary is always a cause for despair. This comment comes from the FT this afternoon: The UK government announced its
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Lagarde is right: we’re heading for 2008, or worse
The Guardian reported today that: The president of the European Central Bank has warned that the coronavirus outbreak will spark an economic downturn in Europe
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The budget: expect the unravelling to start soon
I had little doubt that Rushi Sunak’s first budget would be a disaster, and it was. It was a budget in two halves. There was
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A quick budget reaction
If you want to read my reaction to the budget you really have to read my twitter feed, but I did just also share this
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There is a choice on coronavirus: we can save people or the economy but not both, and the government is choosing the economy
I was talked through the choices that this government is making on the epidemiology of coronavirus by someone who has some insight into the subject
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Sunak has to show he understands deficits today or he’s doomed from the start – and so are we
It is budget day. Rishi Sunak has the task of delivering what might be the most irrelevant budget I will have ever witnessed, unless he
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The Bank of England has delivered its gesture and now passed the buck to the Chancellor
The Bank of England has announced a 0.5% cut in the official base rate in response to the coronavirus, taking that official rate to 0.25%,
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