I watched some of the Treasury Committee hearing this afternoon. A Bank of England team were being questioned on many issues, including MMT. Steve Baker
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Which bit of the national debt do you want to repay? And why?
I just posted this on Twitter: Answers on the back of a £20 note please to a charity of your choice. Or, in the comments
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The Tax Justice Network’s new estimates of tax lost to tax abuse look to be quite seriously understated
Over the last few months a lot of my time has been devoted to work in the national debt. The result of much of that
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Tackling the idea that there is only taxpayers’ money – because that is completely untrue
A regular commentator, usually simply using the name Andrew, posted this on the blog overnight: It would be good to find a convenient way to
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The history and significance of QE in the UK
The post that follows was written as a Twitter thread. As a result no paragraph is more than 280 characters long. But it grew, and
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Bullying
I have experienced bullying at work. It is not fun. So although it is off usual themes I am sharing this from a well respected
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A Q&A on national debt in a single tweet
I just posted this on Twitter, inspired by a regular commentator here: A Q&A on the national debt. Who are we borrowing from? On what
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Sunak should be announcing a programme of massive wealth redistribution next week
It is only on rare occasions that I agree with Sir Ed Troup, the former first secretary of HM Revenue & Customs. He arrived at
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Austerity is a sado-masochistic ritual for a powerful elite
Yesterday’s papers were full of reports that Rishi Sunak’s spending review, which will take place next Wednesday, will be framed by the worst ever public
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