As the Guardian has reported this morning: Cash-short banks have borrowed about $300bn from the Federal Reserve in the past week, the central bank announced
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Are Silicon Valley Bank and Credit Suisse the start of a new banking crisis? First there was a run on Silicon Valley Bank in the
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I was in Jeremy Vine’s studio at the BBC talking about the budget yesterday. As usual, and as has been the case for more than
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The morning after is always a time for reflection. Once the heat of the day has passed what is left to muse on? This is
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I have now reviewed most of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s forecasts issued with the 2023 budget. I wrote my review in a series of
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Having listened to the budget with the main intention of talking about it on Radio 2 immediately after the Chancellor sat down, and having since
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Jeremy Hunt is supposedly going to announce measures to get those over the age of 50 who have dropped out of the workforce back to
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It is Budget Day. As a consequence I will be in Jeremy Vine’s BBC Radio 2 studio at about 13.30 today, discussing the budget as
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If UK government ministers were to be believed the cost of servicing UK government debt creates such a burden on its finances that austerity is
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