The FT needs decoding this morning to understand the message being sent by the financial markets. Two messages suggest that central bankers think that the
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From my Twitter account not very long ago: One day economic history will record how truly terrible the idea of independent central bankers appointed from
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The FT reports this morning that: The number of people who feel ‘locked out’ of the financial system shot up by 40 per cent last year
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I have been tackling some more significant glossary entries in between some heavier research and thinking which is going on in the day job right
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This chart was in the FT yesterday. I note it because there was one era when bank failure virtually disappeared. It was the post-war Keynesian
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I recoded this interview on Friday with Crispin Flintoff of the ‘Not the Andrew Marr Show’, which he puts out on Sunday. Nothing has changed
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I am not the only person to think Janet Yellen got very close to effectively nationalising large parts of the US banking system on the last
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Prof Charlie Bean, formerly of the Bank of England and deputy director there for monetary policy, spilt the beans about what the Bank of England
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Danny Blanchflower and I sent this letter to the FT yesterday. It did not get in, so I will share it here instead: Sir or
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