I tweeted this thread this morning and as I write it on Twitter this is the way I will share it here: I then added
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Videos, again?
I have just posted my first video for some time, asking if videos are of use to people and for comments on this video –
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So where do £60 billion of spending cuts come from?
The Bank of England is bailing out pension funds, again
A pile of commentators have appeared on this blog over the last day or so telling me that the interventions by the Bank of England
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The government can set interest rates in the situation we are now in, and should be doing so
Ministers are trotting out the opinion that the Bank of England sets interest rates and so any coming mortgage crisis is not their fault. Therese
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Kwarteng has a duty to calm febrile markets and only QE can do it
The interest rate on government bonds is rising – now being well over 4.5% on ten year bonds. The signs this morning are that they
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The original anti-growth coalition
So good, and so relevant for today. The video link in the tweet should work: Reginald Perrin and the original anti-growth coalition (1977)pic.twitter.com/cBLDe5kTtN — Tides
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Hasn’t the time come to end the belief that speculation in financial markets is the basis for providing for old age?
The Bank of England has this morning announced a new £10 billion per day facility that will be available indefinitely to ensure that pension funds
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Kwarteng is planning a raid on the central bank reserve accounts – and would win my support if he did
The Financial Mail has reported that: It is understood that the Treasury is weighing up a number of options to tap banks for cash. These
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