This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been,
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The Guardian noted a new report from IPPR yesterday. The IPPR report summary is long-winded. The Guardian summary is worth noting in that case and
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The FT published an article yesterday in which they reported: Private equity firms sold companies to themselves at a record rate this year, making use
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2025 has been an extraordinary year for this channel. 30 million views. Hundreds of thousands of new subscribers. And, more importantly, a growing appetite for
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New polling data is out from Scotland. Party support there looks like this (and remember, in Scotland there is a form of proportional representation, so
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Capital only has economic meaning if it is maintained. Capital maintenance concepts define the boundary between income and capital preservation, and therefore determine what may
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I am in this post-Christmas period working on some of the definitions that will underpin my work on a project if care. Right now, this
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I have added this entry to this blog’s glossary at the request of some commentators. I stress that in an area as complex as this,
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I wrote a reminder of the danger of the end of December in financial markets yesterday. In it, I highlighted the rise in the price
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