According to a report in The Mirror this morning, which is based on government data sorted by council ward: According to the latest figures from
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Have you felt all that lovely growth?
I guess I have to report that the Office for National Statistics reported this at seven this morning (I have corrected their typos and comma
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Has the myth of Trump been shattered?
Trump sought to create three myths. The first was that he knew what he was doing. The second was that he could do what he
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Why won’t Rachel Reeves save £20 billion a year?
Rachel Reeves could cut the interest paid by the government to the UK’s commercial banks by up to £20bn a year. So why won’t she,
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When the videographer is away
My videographer, who also happens to be my son, Thomas (or Tom, to everyone but his parents), is on his old university stomping ground in
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Why are markets so stupid?
Donald Trump announced yet another massive increase in China yesterday, and at the same time reduced the tariffs on every other country in the world
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The madness of King Trump
We have never witnessed an attempt to build a global empire by trade and economic war alone, ever before. Trump is trying it. How should
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When nothing appears rational, anything can happen
This is the chart for movements in the interest rate implicit from the price of UK 10-year government bonds yesterday: This is the equivalent chart
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US interest rates are rising: the exact opposite of what Trump says he wants
This chart has been published by the FT in the last few minutes: The world has reacted to Trump’s deliberate act of massive risk creation
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