Your savings are dead money. That’s the uncomfortable truth about how money works that politicians don’t want you to understand. In this video, I explain
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Zack Polanski’s economic direction
I was pleased to read Zach Polanski’s first major economics speech, delivered this morning. You can read it here. There was a great deal to
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Laffer’s curve: the greatest tax myth of all
After a week in which I can fairly describe work as being hard because of the fatigue I felt last weekend, which it now turns
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Billionaires won’t leave if we tax them
We’re repeatedly told that raising taxes on extreme wealth will drive billionaires and millionaires out of the UK and that the economy will collapse as
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People do want progressive taxation. We are a long way from having it.
Chris Giles, the long-time economic commentator in the FT, noted in an article published this morning that: When it comes to tax changes, the word
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There is no pension crisis, but there is a political crisis that won’t address the issue of pensions
The FT has published an article with the headline: Can Europe still afford its generous state pensions? At the core of the argument the piece
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Campaigners against poverty must get their economics right
As The Guardian noted last night: The richest 500 individuals in the world added a record $2.2tn to their wealth in 2025, according to the Bloomberg
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Zack Polanski, migration, the Greens, and an economics of care
Zack Polanski issued a Christmas message yesterday that demanded the country solve the problem of small boats crossing the English Channel. As he pointed out,
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The right way to tax wealth in 2026
The push for wealth taxes has been one of the defining economic debates of 2025. The question now is whether we want policies that work.
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