I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: Will Hutton has an article in The Observer this morning saying that Britain is bust. It isn’t.
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We need to raise a lot more in tax from the wealthy but that does not convince me that we need a wealth tax
I am aware that my old friend, Howard Reed, has produced the data for the TUC’s proposed new wealth tax. As the TUC say: The
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Why do we waste so much money on the financial services sector when they deal almost excessively very in failed commodities?
Time and again, commentators on this blog get angry with me for suggesting it is rational to avoid investment in shares. This morning the bFT
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The staggering cost of pension tax relief for the wealthiest people in the UK
I was working on a wide range of data on the cost of pension tax reliefs yesterday as part of the project I am working
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Randomness is not good enough when it comes to meeting basic need
I have started a little slowly for me this morning as I had what was, for me, a late night yesterday. That was because I
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Yesterday’s thread on Labour
Yesterday’s thread on neoliberal Labour represented a bit of a risk: it could, OF course, backfired on Twitter. It did not. These are the stats
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It really is time that Labour got its economic act together because it is far from doing so right now
The Labour Party issued the following press release yesterday for use by newspapers (and 0thers) this morning: Britain paying £251 billion “Tory bond blackhole” as
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The UK government’s ‘bung’ to our commerical banks: additional data
Before deciding to publish the research that I had undertaken on the amount paid by the Bank of England to the UK’s commercial banks on
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We live in an economy run for the benefit of bankers
I posted this thread on Twitter this morning. I admit that at 2,000 words it is rather long. However, what I am suggesting is that
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