2022 July 13

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What happens when most households in the Uk have run out of money by the end of the month – which may happen within a year?

Posted on July 13 2022

Hargreaves Lansdown, the financial services company, issued a press release yesterday saying this: Where the cost-of-living crisis is hitting hardest Right now, across the UK,
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Labour is offering us austerity, recession and economic failure as its new economic policy

Posted on July 13 2022

Labour Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves is to make a speech at the Resolution Foundation today. According to the Guardian: Reeves will say a Labour government
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GDP measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile, as today’s data shows

Posted on July 13 2022

I just tweeted this: As Robert Kennedy once said: The gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of
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We need a windfall tax on banks – now

Posted on July 13 2022

This is from the FT this morning: Spain became the largest eurozone country to impose a windfall tax on banks in a sign of European
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Morning thoughts

Posted on July 13 2022

From my Twitter account:

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The collapse of legal government in the UK goes on, by the day

Posted on July 13 2022

Boris Johnson’s government denied a Labour request for a vote of no confidence in it yesterday. This matters. A government has to be able to
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