Introduction I keep getting comments from people who claim that my suggestion that banks do not use funds deposited with them to make loans is
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As the FT has noted this morning: Fears of a massive non-dom exodus from the UK have been allayed by initial tax data, which suggests
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Yesterday’s poll on the household analogy produced some pretty clear results. This was the voting on this blog: And this was the result on YouTube:
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The Overton Window decides what can – and cannot – be said in politics. But who builds this “window of acceptability”? In this video, I
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I was amused by this opening to a report in the FT this morning: Wealth managers say their clients are increasingly worried the Treasury could
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Rachel Reeves is said to face a £40–50 billion budget shortfall. One fair, simple solution? VAT on financial services. Right now, banks, wealth managers, pension
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The National posted this video by me on their channel this afternoon: This is the transcript: It’s August, and so inevitably in Scotland we get
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Trump took over policing in Washington, DC this week to supposedly tackle a crime wave. In reality, crime in Washington, DC, is falling, and at
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On Monday, the FT reported that: Donald Trump has picked a loyalist from the rightwing Heritage Foundation to head the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after
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