According to the Sunday Times this is going to happen in the budget: I suspect that the figures are so precise that this is a
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The framing of the budget
This Twitter thread actually began life as a blog post, then moved to Twitter, and now I bring it back again: The framing of this
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Sunday morning thoughts
These got posted on Twitter this morning, the last two as a very short thread: How many times this week will we hear the lie
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The Bank of England has always been over-optimistic about the UK economy, and it is being dangerously so now
I promised myself that I would not write a blog post today. And then I read the speech Andy Haldane, Chief Economist at the Bank
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Audit is in desperate need of reform
Those of us who have an interest in audit reform (who I know are not the biggest group in society) have been awaiting a report
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Schrodinger’s Scotland
Inflation is a figment of a few economist’s imaginations
As some readers, and maybe more of my Twitter followers will know, Prof David Blanchflower of Dartmouth College (who is always known as Danny) and
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One jab is not enough: two are needed for vaccination
Just to fuel the Covid debate that is going on here, I offer this from the latest React Study from Imperial College London: As they
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Public country-by-country reporting has been approved in the European Union
As Transparency International reported yesterday afternoon on an issue very close to my heart: Transparency International EU, the Brussels office of the global movement against
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