As regular readers of this blog will know, I started a podcast called The Account a year ago. After five editions, it faded away because
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The Guardian reports this morning that: Overall, during the year [2022-23] 12 million people were in absolute poverty [in the UK] – equivalent to 18%
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Andrew Bailey from the Bank of England is featured in the FT today. It is hard to know whether the attitudes he displays are best
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If you can access X or Twitter, as most of us still think of it, then this is worth watching. Green Party peer Jenny Jones
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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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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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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 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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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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