I suspect this one is for the geeks, and is a chart of how public spending has changed in the last year, issued by the
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There is one thing you need to understand about today’s public debt figures – and that is that public debt has not increased
The Office for National Statistics has just issued new public debt statistics. The headlines will be all about the issues that they highlight in their
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The Bank of England votes for more QE – but this is a road that will run out
The Bank of England has just announced that: At its meeting ending on 17 June 2020, the MPC voted unanimously to maintain Bank Rate at
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It looks like EY are failing again with another major audit crisis in the making. The question has to be asked as to when we might have decent audits, and even decent accounts
There have been suspicions about the accounts of German-based Wirecard, which handles credit card payment processes, for some time. Now the company has admitted, according
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Will the big firms of accountants survive the coronavirus crisis? Don’t count on it
A report by Micahel Kapoor of Bloomberg, published yesterday suggests: The major U.K. accounting firms could struggle to weather the impact of the pandemic or
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Just stop all but the most vital air travel, now
I was not only talking to economists yesterday. I also had one of my regular discussions with an epidemiologist. Their view was that in two
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For the sake of the planet Goldman Sachs has to lose
The opposition of the financial services sector to things like the Green New Deal is becoming ever more apparent. As the FT has reported this
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We need an Opposition completely committed to full employment that isn’t frightened of the cost of delivering it. When are we going to get it?
I took part in a discussion with a group of economists yesterday. There is nothing unusual about that. The sombre term of the discussion was,
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We cannot run out of money. We will run out of jobs though. And more money is the only answer to that.
The Mirror’s morning email to readers yesterday, penned by assistant editor Jason Beattie with whom I have worked, included what appeared to be a claim
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