Andy Burnham says it’s time for the UK to stop being in hock to the bond markets. The City is in uproar, but who really
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Markets want MORE government debt
We’re told that government debt is spiralling out of control. Commentators scream “fiscal crisis!” and “record borrowing!” But the truth is very different. High government
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The finance curse
The UK suffers from a finance curse. Far from being our economic jewel, the City of London has drained trillions from the economy. That’s lost
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Why do politicians, economists and market commentators pick up all the wrong signals?
The economic commentators are in a panic this morning. The government, they are saying, has overspent in August. The figure for what they call borrowing
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The big questions for the Bank of England today
There are two big questions for the Bank of England when they announce their decisions on monetary policy this lunchtime. The first is whether they
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Bond markets do not rule – governments do
James Carville, adviser to Bill Clinton, once said that if there were reincarnation, he would like to come back as the bond market, because then
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Why are interest rates rising around the world?
As Andrew Bailey of the Bank of England noted yesterday when giving evidence in the House of Commons, interest rates are rising around the world
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MMT and rules of government borrowing
A new commentator left the following comment on this blog after my most recent video. They started with a quote from me: ‘And bonds in
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The AI summary of why we need to reform bond markets
I asked when posting a poll this morning whether a bullet-point summary of my argument for eliminating bond markets, generated by AI, would be beneficial.
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