2020 May 20

Who is going to pay for it? The lenders are going to, at least in part

Posted on May 20 2020

The FT has noted: When the question is asked ‘how are you going to pay for it?’ one answer now is ‘the people who lend
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Tax After Coronavirus (TACs) : Reforming council tax

Posted on May 20 2020

The reasons why wealth needs to be subject to additional taxation has been discussed in another Tax After Coronavirus (TACs) post, with all links being supplied
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The time for company law reform has arrived so that we can be sure what every company in the UK is doing, and who owns and runs it

Posted on May 20 2020

I did a search of Companies House this morning. I found 100 companies with Covid in their name. The vast majority have been formed in
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We need inflation: what we have is a risk of deflation

Posted on May 20 2020

The Office for National Statistics has published new inflation data. The Consumer Prices Index for April has fallen, to 0.8%. Factory prices actually deflated by
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The economy of the future is going to be nothing like that of the past: imagining what it might be is the most pressing thing we could do now

Posted on May 20 2020

Talk of L, U or even W shaped recoveries for the UK economy from the crisis that we are now in all seem wildly optimistic.
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Funding government spending: an explanation

Posted on May 20 2020

This is the third in my audio series on money. It explains how government spending is funded – and how this always involves the creation
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We have many issues to face now: restoring what was already broken is not one of them.

Posted on May 20 2020

George Monbiot wrote this yesterdaywrote this yesterday, in The Guardian: We are trapped in a long, dark tunnel, all of whose known exits are blocked.
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