If the debt fetishists were to be believed the additional supposed borrowing that the government is going to take on to pay for the coronavirus
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The Office for Budget Responsibility does not think interest rates are going to rise – so can we stop obsessing about it?
I wrote yesterday that the chance of an interest rate rise is remote in the extreme. About 10,000 people have read that blog post now.
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The coronavirus crisis is going to make a lot of people in the UK very much wealthier
The Office for Budget Responsibility has published its analysis of the coronavirus (to date) today. I will do a number of blogs on what it
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The Financial Reporting Council really does have a duty to present its own data on audit quality truthfully and fairly
The Financial Reporting Council oversees the audits by big firms undertaken in the UK. They review the activities of the largest seven audit firms (PWC,
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The cost of Brexit is rising rapidly – and still no one can explain why we’re doing it
The cost of Brexit is now becoming apparent. Customs clearances are apparently going to cost business £7 billion a year. 50,000 new Customs staff are
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Are we up to the ethical challenges of Covid 19?
I watched football last night. That’s rare for me. But I thought I needed to unwind. Whilst watching I was, however, thinking about the challenges
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Tuesday morning thought: what if Covid 19 does not go away?
Today’s video: Do we need a wealth tax?
The latest video is out: The data I quote comes from the Office for National Statistics. My message is simple: wealth taxes are not politically
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