I thought it appropriate to provide an update on my funding as quite a number of people have very generously been supporting this blog over
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As the FT has just reported: The Federal Reserve has adopted a new strategy for monetary policy that will be more tolerant of temporary increases
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The government has just revised its official estimates of the cost of electricity generation, again. According to Carbon Briefing these are the new estimates, with
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I loved this twitter thread by Tony Weston, who sometimes commented here, and think it deserves a wider coverage, so I hope he will excuse
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I am grateful to Martin MacDonald who posted this tweet: To which he appended this chart: Does anyone smell a rat? Could that rat just
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I was asked yesterday why my work roams across tax, economics, accountancy and audit. It was suggested that this is unusual. It was an interesting
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Few things make me more annoyed than the claim that ‘we’re spending taxpayers’ money’. This video explains why (and yes, the apostrophe has gone missing….and
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The Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (GERS) statement for the year to March 2020 has now been published. It would take a stronger will to
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This chart has been published by the Guardian this morning: It might be said to be the graphical presentation of failure. It’s hard to interpret
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