When Rishi Sunak sat down after delivering the first of his three budgets of the last nine days Jeremy Vine asked me live on Radio
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Only tax holidays and wage subsidies can keep UK households and businesses going now but does Sunak know enough accounting to realise that?
What Rishi Sunak needs to know before he announces his third round of coronavirus crisis measures in little more than a week is some quite
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The challenge that the left must face in the current financial crisis
I wrote yesterday about why it is that the recession that we are now facing as a result of coronavirus is not the same as
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When a cartoon says it all
This recession is nothing like previous ones and so it has to be managed very differently
I was told by an economist today that the situation that we face now is exactly like the 1930s. Without wishing to name the person
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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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Why exams?
Like hundreds of thousands of other parents all over the country I now face the prospect of having a child at home for many months
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The banks are using this crisis to demand that we go back to the rules of 2007 so that they can exploit us all over again
As the Financial Times has reported this morning: The global banking industry is demanding regulators relax or delay a raft of post-crisis rules on everything
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If small business uses £1 billion of the £330 billion government loan guarantee scheme I’ll be astonished – because it’s written so that they can’t get access to it
This is what the government-owned British Business Bank has to say about the new loan guarantee facility of £330 billion for UK businesses, and how
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