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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Fiscal rules are not laws of economics. They are political straitjackets designed to stop change. Every Chancellor since Gordon Brown has used them to limit
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The TUC published this press release yesterday, and I am going to share it as they published it, because I think it is interesting enough
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The Guardian published these maps projecting changes in the population of countries and regions within Europe by 2100 yesterday. This is the map of population
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One of my pleasures in life these days is not travelling nearly as much as I used to. The only way in which this blog
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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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I am already immensely bored by the Angela Rayner stamp duty story. For the record, I doubt she will survive this episode in office. Her
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The Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT), the International Budget Partnership (IBP) and the University of Sheffield have launched a major new training programme on
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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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