The world is obsessed by quantitative easing and borrowing. But it is a simple accounting fact that for every borrower their must be a saver.
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The Financial Times has reported this morning that: British people “lack a basic understanding” of economic statistics such as unemployment or the government’s deficit, and
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As the Guardian reports this morning: The government has privately admitted the UK faces an increased likelihood of “systemic economic crisis” as it completes its
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The Guardian’s morning briefing  includes this paragraph today: The chancellor’s second mini-budget of the pandemic will lay bare the government’s fears over the long-lasting impact
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My Green New Deal colleague Colin Hines had this letter in the Guardian overnight: Your editorial (23 November) highlights how Rishi Sunak is softening the country up
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Richard Brooks of Private Eye is chair of Tax Watch UK, and he has written to me this morning saying that the characterisation I have
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It would seem that I walked into another minor hornet’s nest when tweeting, and then blogging, about Tax Watch UK director George Turner’s suggestion that
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The national economic obsession is with repaying the national debt. But, very few people know what it in the national debt (including, I now realise,
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George Turner of Tax Watch UK published a paper and made a claim at an event yesterday that tax evasion is the same as tax
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