From Yes Minister: Superbly written and acted, as usual.

As the FT notes this morning, Barclays Bank has announced a reorganization of its business as a result of which: Barclays is … planning to
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This post is the third of the three that relate to the economic ideas underpinning the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. The first was on tax
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The Bank of England talks interest rates today, and no one thinks that they will cut them. That provides the clearest indication that they still
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As the Guardian and others have reported: Labour has pledged to “unashamedly champion” the UK’s financial services sector, as it promised to cut down 10,000
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The FT noted last night that: Jeremy Hunt has called in Britain’s largest banks to discuss why they remain so poorly valued compared with global
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I make no apology for returning to the stories of money creation that have rather dominated this blog for the last few days. I reflected
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Regular commentator on this blog, Clive Parry, has written a note on how the banking system and government and commercial bank money creation work, which
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The note has been written by regular commentator Clive Parry, who has been a bond trader for 35 years, as a response to the discussion
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