Traffic on this blog since I began the redesign a few weeks ago has grown considerably. That had been especially true since adding polls, like
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Banking is in meltdown, again. Will central bankers finally accept that their job is to serve society and not bankers?
That there would be a meltdown in world banking was obvious to Danny Blanchflower and me as we worked on our submission to the Treasury
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The banking crisis shows we need to cancel quantitative tightening, cut interest rates now and restart quantitative easing
The following is an edited extract from the report that Danny Blanchflower and I have submitted to the House of Commons Treasury Committee on quantitative
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Data on doctors leaving the NHS could not justify the pension bung for the very wealthy
I was approached by David Burke of the Daily Mirror yesterday to comment on this data in the context of the new pension tax reliefs
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If only we had someone like Jon Stewart
US late evening comment television can be very good indeed. I am known to watch it on occasion, albeit on catch up. Choose your channels
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Adding the Tax Research RSS feed to your phone or iPad
A number of people have been asking how they might find out what is going on with the blog quicker than they might by waiting
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In the Guardian
Danny Blanchflower and I are in the Guardian this afternoon with a Larry Elliott article dedicated to our new report: What we are suggesting is
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Spring is in the air
On my walk this morning, at Kingfisher Bridge, just south of Ely: Spring is coming. Good birdwatching too this weekend: cattle egret, black-tailed godwit, garganey
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The Bank of England needs an urgent change of strategy on interest rates, quantitative easing and quantitative tightening if they are not to crash the economy
Prof David (Danny) Blanchflower and I made a joint submission to the House of Commons treasury Committee on Friday. They had asked for evidence on
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