As some readers of this column will know, I write a weekly column for The National newspaper in Scotland. In yesterday’s column, I tackled the
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The Bank of England is sending out signals, again, that it is expecting to increase bank interest rates soon. The current official interest rate is,
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Bankers like to think that they are the masters of the universe.  Central bankers are the worst kind of bankers in this regard. The actions
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As the FT notes this morning: Rishi Sunak will slash a tax surcharge on bank profits by more than 60 per cent in next week’s
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I am sharing this blog from the IMF, simply because I think it really important: Crypto Boom Poses New Challenges to Financial Stability By Dimitris Drakopoulos, Fabio
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The Banque de France has issued a working paper on modern monetary theory (MMT). In the introduction to it they say: In the last few
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As the FT has noted this morning: John Glen, City minister, has vowed that Britain’s financial services sector will enjoy “competitive tax rates” as he
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Positive Money has made an appeal asking that people support the idea of a Bank of England central bank digital currency (CBDC) in the UK.
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I posted this on Twitter yesterday afternoon: My reasoning was straightforward. We have a new chief economist at the Bank of England, who will serve
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