From the UN General Secretary: The combined profits of the largest energy companies in the first quarter of this year are close to $100 billion.
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I have just posted this thread on Twitter: The Bank of England’s going to increase interest rates today. It may be by 0.25%. It could
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This happened not very long ago: My thanks to all new followers. NB: A day on it is 153,600

As regular readers of this blog will know, how the Office for National Statistics accounts for the UK’s national debt has been a long-running concern
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It was a good day on Twitter for me yesterday. This post has been viewed 958,000 times: The two threads I write have also been
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The same IMF working paper that I have referred to this morning with regard to consumer energy price inflation also includes a chart on who
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I posted this new chart published by the IMF on Twitter yesterday: By this morning it had been viewed 941,000 times. The reason is not
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I have posted this thread on Twitter: In 2016 I took my sons, then in their mid-teens, to Munich on holiday. We had a great
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I have just posted this thread on Twitter: How many people lived in fear in the summer of 1914, dreading what might happen? Come to
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