Has a budget ever been leaked as much as this Wednesday’s? No doubt there is a rabbit left in Sunak’s hat, but most must be
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70,000
I was pleased to note that I secured my 70,000th Twitter follower yesterday, with something of a margin to spare by the time this morning
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The Office for Budget Responsibility has always been wildly over-optimistic in its forecasts, and is sticking to its usual form now
The FT has reported this morning that: The UK’s rapid rollout of Covid-19 vaccines will foster a faster economic recovery, requiring fewer tax rises than
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It would seem that Green Bonds are in vogue – but we have to get them right
According to the Sunday Times this is going to happen in the budget: I suspect that the figures are so precise that this is a
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The framing of the budget
This Twitter thread actually began life as a blog post, then moved to Twitter, and now I bring it back again: The framing of this
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Sunday morning thoughts
These got posted on Twitter this morning, the last two as a very short thread: How many times this week will we hear the lie
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The Bank of England has always been over-optimistic about the UK economy, and it is being dangerously so now
I promised myself that I would not write a blog post today. And then I read the speech Andy Haldane, Chief Economist at the Bank
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Audit is in desperate need of reform
Those of us who have an interest in audit reform (who I know are not the biggest group in society) have been awaiting a report
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