The papers and the ‘usual’ commentators are in agreement that now is not the time to worry about debt. They’re also agree that there will
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Damp squib for green bonds
Could the government make the new retail green bond sound any more uninspired if they tried? This is what the Budget document said: I am
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This is a budget built on three fantasies
I would love to think that this country is heading for good times again. Today’s budget is not going to deliver that outcome. There are
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Rishi Sunak is planning a whole new wave of unemployment starting on 1 July
Rishi Sunak is to extend furlough. That’s already been announced as part of the budget. It is now likely to last until September. There are
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Chris Giles’ dream of a 1% interest rate rise is wrong in almost every way imaginable
Chris Giles is continuing his obsession with interest rate increases in the FT today. In advance of the budget he has suggested that: Th[e]remarkable increase in
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Sunak’s smile will be fixed for the days to come. The inner man will need to be deluded to believe that all that he will be saying is true
Rishi Sunak will sound super confident today. He will sing the praises of his budget to a very largely empty House of Commons, and will
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Budget day
Today is, of course, Budget day. Although how much there will be left fo the Chancellor to say is hard to work out given the
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Why Twitter?
For the first few years that I was on Twitter I had an ambiguous relationship with it. Whilst my commitment to this blog has remained
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