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Ofgem director resigns, confirming that it is on the side of profit exploiting companies
As the Guardian note today: A director at energy regulator Ofgem has resigned, accusing it of favouring businesses over consumers with a rule change that will add
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Inflation is a passing phase: what we need is help to get through it rather than pain to punish us for it
Danny Blanchflower had a longish discussion yesterday in which we agreed that the inflation that is dominating economic discussion about our economy at present is
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As the Bank of England relentlessly seeks to drive the economy towards recession Sunak and Truss think the government should sit on the sidelines and watch the disaster unfold
Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak both ruled out support for energy price caps during the Tory leadership hustings last night. As I have discussed, there
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Of course banks are not putting up savings rates: they really do not want or even need savers’ money
As The Guardian has noted: Millions of people are being short-changed on savings rates, with banks and building societies failing to pass on this month’s
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Inflation is bad: choosing to create a recession as well, as the Tories are doing, is very much worse
The future of democracy is uncertain
I worry about politics. In the US yesterday, a pro-Trump candidate defeated the pretty far-right US Senator Liz Cheney in the Republican primary for Wyoming,
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Advancing Fiscal Transparency for Development: a free online course
I have posted on the new Tax Transparency Principles that I have co-authored for the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency that were published last week,
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The current decline in real wages is unprecedented for most people, which is why we need a plan to deal with it
From the ONS this morning: The contrast between the pre-2008 era and since is big: people should take note. The current decline in real wages
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