I recommend the Politico blog and its email briefing, which is free. In it this morning they ask how long the Tories can hold the
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I was explaining my logic on the pressures business will face after coronavirus to a friend last night. They asked for an example to illustrate
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As the FT has reported: A bombshell ruling by Germany’s constitutional court questioning the legality of European monetary policy impinges on central bank independence and
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Summary This blog post is, in effect, an essay of almost four thousand words. I did not intend that when I started to write it.
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The Guardian has reported that Oxford University has published a report supporting what is, in effect, exactly what the Green New Deal has been calling
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As the Guardian has reported: The Office for National Statistics has just published its latest weekly death figures. Here are are the main points. There were 21,997
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George Soros recently made an interesting, and potentially controversial, call for the European Union to issue what are called perpetual bonds. Perpetual bonds are unusual
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A week or so ago I was trying to persuade a journalist on a major newspaper that there might be 30% unemployment in the UK.
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Yesterday Simon Fowler said on the blog: I think we need a library of accurate but concise answers to each of these kinds of questions
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