I am struggling with this morning’s Bank of England (BoE) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) report. There are a number of reasons. One is that I
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I think it fair to say that whatever we once thought we knew about economics, we no longer know. Saying so, I am not talking
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I was amused by the honesty of an an article by Julian Jessop, the head of economics at the Institute of Economic Affairs, that came
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I recently submitted a fairly lengthy comment to the Government’s consultation on the creation of new Freeport in the UK, suggesting that it was almost
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Not much has changed since the 1990s when it comes to Euro-scepticism. This was recorded during the Major years by John Bird and John Fortune:
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This provocative (in the sense of thought provoking) comment was posted on the blog yesterday and I can only apologise to Andrew Sayer and Kevin
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I’ve written two books on tax havens, and the honest answer is that tax havens come in so many varieties that it is very hard
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From my twitter account this morning

If you can get into the FT story linked in this tweet it’s worth it, and free reads are allowed on the FT: In 2012,
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