I watched government minister Victoria Atkins MP talking in a Channel 4 election debate last night, during which she claimed we must not borrow now
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Johnson has no idea about how to help those in poverty when there is so much he could do
I have posted this thread on Twitter this morning: Susanna Reid interviewed Boris Johnson on ITV yesterday morning. He had no answers to her questions
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The real problem we might face in the UK might be unplanned for deflation within a couple of years
Inflation is a curious beast. That is, it is if you think about it a little more than the average economist does. The central banker’s
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The Bank of England does not have a duty to push people into poverty
I cannot have been alone and being appalled at comments made by former Bank of England employee and Monetary Policy Committee member Adam Posen, who
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The longer economists and the government wait to recognise we’re in recession the harder it will be to deal with
As the FT notes this morning, Amazon’s sales growth has disappeared: As Danny Blanchflower and I keep saying, this is because we are already heading
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The Tories want to end the cost of living crisis without any additional government spending. Their disconnection from reality is almost complete.
As Politico notes this morning: Boris Johnson will hold a Cabinet meeting this morning where he will order his senior ministers to get to grips
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This is not a ‘buyer’s strike’. This is recession
Rana Foroohar argues in the FT this morning that because the cost of food, fuel and housing has been climbing so dramatically in the US
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It’s time for a new path on the economic crisis that we face
As I mentioned a couple of days ago, Danny Blanchflower and I have written a feature for The Mirror on how to get out of
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Is the Bank of England at risk of missing a major downturn again?
As I have already mentioned on this blog, Danny Blanchflower and I have been working together on our vision for the economic policy that the
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