Rachel Reeves’ Budget was a damp squib, delivering austerity by stealth. There was no vision, and no investment. There was just fear of the City
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“Modern monetary theory (MMT) is dangerous nonsense.” That line, or something very close to it, is now appearing with weary regularity from left-wing economists and
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We published my alternative budget as a PDF download on Wednesday. Six hundred people have accepted our invitation to download it for free, and some
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Rachel Reeves’ Budget this week has several themes. She gave the City what it wanted. She spent almost nothing on anything that might add value
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For those wanting a slightly more Scottish spin on the Budget, this was my interview for The National, yesterday:

For more than 45 years, the UK has suffered not one, but two economic curses: the resource curse and the finance curse. Both were chosen,
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This video is a little unusual. It is a recording of what I said on the Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio 2 yesterday. We’ve
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The Treasury yesterday produced a distributional analysis of the Budget, plus last year’s fiasco from Reeves. They said: This document sets out estimates of the impact
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There was a comment posted on this blog overnight, which might reasonably be called a tirade about the temerity of my suggestion that we might
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