Fifty years ago, in the long hot summer of 1976, I went to university to study economics. Since that time, I have spent half a
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In an article published yesterday in the Financial Times, Megan Greene, an external member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee, argued that the
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The Richard J Murphy YouTube Channel Debate Ammunition The UK Mortgage Market Funding the Future | June 2026 Today’s topic Trump’s war, your mortgage: How
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Most British mortgage holders live with uncertainty. They always face the risk of higher repayment costs through no fault of their own. A change in
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I keep hearing people say things like this right now: I hate Labour, but I’d vote Burnham to keep Reform out. I admit that if
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I keep warning of a crisis. But the question to ask is whether there is evidence of it happening. There is. Take this chart from
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I have, this morning, added a new e-book to our PDF download site. This is the combined collection based on the Economic Thinker Series published
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THE RICHARD J MURPHY YOUTUBE CHANNEL DEBATE AMMUNITION LABOUR, PFI AND FINANCIAL ILLITERACY Funding the Future | June 2026 TODAY’S TOPIC Why PFI for New
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Labour says it wants to build new towns. But if Rachel Reeves funds them through PFI-style private finance, those towns could be financially crippled from
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