I have just published this video, which is based on the Twitter thread published today: The transcript is as follows: New data published by the
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The wealthiest 10% in the UK get at least £30bn a year in subsidies for their savings each year – enough to pay for the NHS for 9 weeks
I published this thread on Twitter this morning: The government has just published new data on the cost of UK tax reliefs, which is the
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Pension funds want bonds so why won’t the government supply them?
I keep being told by right-wing trolls that I am wrong to suggest the merits of investing in bonds and that no long-term investor would
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The Bank of England is bailing out pension funds, again
A pile of commentators have appeared on this blog over the last day or so telling me that the interventions by the Bank of England
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Hasn’t the time come to end the belief that speculation in financial markets is the basis for providing for old age?
The Bank of England has this morning announced a new £10 billion per day facility that will be available indefinitely to ensure that pension funds
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We have a pension system unsuited to modern patterns of property ownership and occupation
I noticed this data in a press release from Hargreaves Lansdown this week: Renters were much less likely than homeowners to be on track to
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The last thing we need is more auto-enrolment of those on low pay in pension schemes that do not benefit them or society
As the FT has noted this morning: Pension providers have called on the government to reform workplace pension entry rules after official analysis found hundreds of
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There is a pot of £37 billion within the government’s accounts that is available to meet the cost of paying old age pension increases in accordance with the triple lock. So why is the government refusing to honour its commitment to older people?
It seems to be little known that there is a thing called the National Insurance Fund within UK government accounts. This is what the accounts
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Should the triple lock be broken?
There is much heat in the papers over the news that Rishi Sunak is likely to break the supposed pension triple lock that has guaranteed
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