According to the Times (behind a paywall) these are the priorities for UK national investment according to the UK public right now, as recounted to
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It is a long time since I first wrote about the merits, as I saw them, of local authority bonds as the basis for local
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I spoke at the  COSLA  conference this afternoon. COSLA represents local authorities in Scotland. This was my second visit to their conference.  It was good to
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I have this letter in the Guardian this morning: Two comments on my letter concerning the use of People’s Quantitative Easing to buy out PFI (27 September) in
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Victor Xing has an article in the FT today in which he discusses the now widely understood and adverse distributional consequences of QE that I
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Colin Hines and I have this letter in the Guardian this morning:  Zoe Williams is right: another credit crunch-induced “crash” is likely and the only
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All ideas ideas have their moments. Some of them are pivotal. The trouble is knowing when those pivotal tipping points arrive. Post Hurricane Harvey in
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Following the hard to believe NIESR forecast that the UK was likely to grow quite well in the next year sane voices basing their arguments
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A regular reader of this blog wrote to me after I wrote about the abandonment of rail electrification to Swansea, saying: I am an electrical
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