Two headlines from an FT newsletter this morning: First, the markets have reacted to Truss’s plan to trash the economy as they did to Thatcher’s
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180,000
I just noticed this had happened: I think there have been about 2,500 new Twitter followers today because of this morning’s thread, which got a
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Yesterday was so bad that we have no choice now but think about the world we want after neoliberalism
I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: Yesterday was bad. It was, in fact, very, very bad. If Johnson was a disaster, Truss has
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The Big Issue comes down to £150 billion or so
I have an article in The Big Issue. It’s now available online here: The core argument is this: If it was acceptable to use [QE]
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On Patrick Minford
Larry Elliott has a piece in the Guardian today discussing Patrick Minford, the economic adviser to both Thatcher and Truss. He notes: The left-leaning economist
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It will take luck and political genius to avoid unrest in the next year
I have already mentioned commenting on Radio 2 yesterday, and what was discussed, in another post this morning. An hour or so after doing that
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The nightmare progression to being a failed state begins
The nightmare has begun. I think I realised that when on the Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio 2 yesterday, debating with Mark Littlewood of
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Truss does not care
I have just posted this thread on Twitter: I took the weekend off writing. I deliberately wanted a break from commenting on the crisis that
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The EU gets the need to suspend markets in the public interest: will Liz Truss?
Andrew Marr has picked up on my ideas for energy market reform in The New Statesman: Further, it means tearing up the present regulatory system,
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