It’s the sort of morning that can only happen after a long summer, before a bank holiday weekend (in England and Wales) and when almost
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The Tories want tax cuts, but that’s just another slogan for them
July tax receipts by HM Revenue & Customs weren’t bad, so yesterday Tory MPs.were calling for tax cuts. Of course they were. Whatever the situation,
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3,162,651 breaks the record
Sometime late yesterday evening this blog clicked up its 3,162,651st read of the year. That makes this year the most successful in the blog’s history
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The UK company birth explosion
Earlier this week, I noted the problems with the management of UK companies by Companies House, the failed regulator that supposedly has charge of this
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The ‘economic grown-ups’ at the Bank of England are heading us towards Armageddon
As the Bank of England noted in a blog yesterday: Higher interest rates are putting pressure on indebted corporates through higher debt servicing costs. Such
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Neoclassical economists are the last people to listen to on climate change
I read this post by my Green New Deal colleague, and friend, Ann Pettifor, yesterday, and with her permission, I share it here because it
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Greedflation is alive and well in UK boardrooms
As the FT notes this morning: FTSE 100 bosses were given a 16 per cent pay rise on average last year, catapulting their earnings to
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Don’t rock the boat in NHS Trusts
I noticed this tweet yesterday: On the two occasions I sought to be a Chair of an NHS trust I learnt that they considered me
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Limited liability is now the preserve of the free-loaders
It is the day of the year when, at least with regard to political economy, almost nothing seems to have happened. I am aware of
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