I posted this on Twitter this morning: The question is serious, and gets to the core of the Farage canpaign. The object of Farage, Sunak,
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The Bank of England wants to make a loss of £150 billion so that governments will be forced to cut spending. That is the real banking scandal of our time.
A number of people have asked me to comment on this article in the FT from a few days ago: To do so I have
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We need a state-owned bank. That is what a courageous state would create right now.
I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: I cannot be alone in being bored by hearing and seeing Nigel Farage in the media talking
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Why the OBR’s view of the economy is so wrong
I posted this thread on Twitter this morning. It is a discussion of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s latest long-term report and forecast issued this
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The government has chosen bankers over state employees and public sector workers today, and that is unforgiveable
I have posted this thread to Twitter in response to the government’s announcement that it has agreed to pay review bodies’ recommendations but has not
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Bank of England employees did very nicely in the last year, thank you very much
I thought it was time I took a look at the latest accounts from the Bank of England, which bizarrely are, as ever, to 28th
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If only the government preferred people to bankers we’d all be more than £30 billion better off
I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: This year the government will give the UK’s banks £45 billion they have done nothing to earn.
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The debt we’re in
I received this by email from investment advisors Hargreaves Lansdown yesterday: Looming debt crisis will lay waste to our finances One in four of us
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The era of independent central banks should be over
I took some time off writing over the weekend. That did not stop me musing. One strand of thought was on central banks, or rather
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