This is data on the consumer price index for the last year or so published this week by the Office for National Statistics: Why show
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Rachel Reeves’ fiscal rule is the same as John McDonnell’s and Jeremy Hunt’s. All three offered austerity.
In 2018, I wrote a blog post making clear that I profoundly disagreed with the fiscal rule that was proposed at that time by John
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Not fueling growth
I suddenly realised that posting about meeting wants and not needs on my birthday might leave me open to allegations of hypocrisy – on the
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I don’t believe in growth
I don’t believe in growth as an economic panacea. There, I’ve said it, and most economist will be horrified. Why say so now? Because Rachael
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On being officially old
I am 66 years old this morning, and so am officially an old age pensioner. So too is my twin brother, with whom, rather unsurprisingly,
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