I am grateful to Martin MacDonald who posted this tweet: To which he appended this chart: Does anyone smell a rat? Could that rat just
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I was asked yesterday why my work roams across tax, economics, accountancy and audit. It was suggested that this is unusual. It was an interesting
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Few things make me more annoyed than the claim that ‘we’re spending taxpayers’ money’. This video explains why (and yes, the apostrophe has gone missing….and
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The Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (GERS) statement for the year to March 2020 has now been published. It would take a stronger will to
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This chart has been published by the Guardian this morning: It might be said to be the graphical presentation of failure. It’s hard to interpret
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I have been looking at the thorny issue of what makes up the public sector net debt, excluding public sector banks, that was announced last
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For the last few years I have been involved in debate on the quality of the Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland statement. It is how
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Modern monetary theory highlights the important role of the government in creating money when it spends. That process makes sure our money has value. But
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Having had a letter in the Guardian today with me, Colin Hines also has one on a fairly similar theme in the FT: Letter: Green
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