To follow on from one of this morning’s posts.
Is it time to replace the bond market with something suited to the 21st century?
One of the best uses for AI that I currently know is to ask it to summarise the arguments in an article or paper. This
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The City of London really does need to understand that the government does not need its money
The FT has reported that: A new Labour government could raise extra money for investment from bond markets without causing a Liz Truss-style gilts crisis,
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Base money and central bank reserve accounts
I was hoping to spend a much time on the glossary this week as I did last, but a tsunami of other work has meant
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If we have more than £15 trillion worth of personal wealth in the UK to suggest that we cannot afford to save the planet is quite absurd
I was searching data on UK wealth yesterday, checking whether the office for National statistics had updated the information that it publishes on this issue,
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It would seem that Green Bonds are in vogue – but we have to get them right
According to the Sunday Times this is going to happen in the budget: I suspect that the figures are so precise that this is a
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The IFS Green Budget is a manifesto for a bank that wants to see increased interest rates rather than a report that approximates to objective comment
The Institute for Fiscal Studies has issued its Green Budget (i.e. its forecasts for what it sees the budget scenarios to be) for autumn 2020
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Local authority bonds are back, and anyone who believes in local democracy should welcome that
As the FT has reported this morning: Cash-strapped UK local authorities are to group together for the first time to raise hundreds of million of
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Coronavirus QE from the Bank of England has to have conditions attached for the sake of us all
The Bank of England has now announced the creation of a coronavirus quantitative easing programme. In broad terms I welcome this, but I am concerned
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