The old age pension triple lock is under attack again. The Financial Times wants it scrapped. The Resolution Foundation wants it ended. The Tony Blair
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Alex Wickham, who is usually a reliable source of economic data and who is based at Bloomberg, has suggested that information he has received indicates
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On Saturday, I wrote a piece entitled What is labour was not a cost? It generated a lot of comments, including one noting that I had
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Interest rate markets are in turmoil. Government bond yields are rising, inflation fears are growing, and financial markets are demanding higher returns. But there is
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Martin Wolf has written in the Financial Times today about the difficult choices facing John Healey as he prepares for his October Budget. Wolf argues
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I published a post here yesterday that has attracted a lot of comments, not all of which I have been able to deal with as
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Donald Trump has claimed that if the Republicans win the midterm elections, he will make every adult in America $5,000 better off. That is, for
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Compass, the think tank that claims to be non-party-based and left-of-centre, published a new 230-page report yesterday titled ‘Ending Business as Usual: Policy Options for
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