The lessons to learn from Martin Luther King
Wednesday, January 10th, 2024This article to mark Martin Luther King Day in the USA, which is on 15 January, was written by an old friend of mine, Ben
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Are student loan repayments an inverted wealth tax?
Tuesday, January 9th, 2024The Guardian, FT and others have reported this morning on a new report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies on the cost of student loans,
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What is 'free' about government money creation?
Monday, January 8th, 2024The note has been written by regular commentator Clive Parry, who has been a bond trader for 35 years, as a response to the discussion
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We do not need tax cuts: what we need is more spend and tax. That's our only hope.
Monday, January 8th, 2024The FT reports this morning that: Unpacking that, what Sunak is saying is: The Mail wants tax cuts and he will deliver them. To supposedly
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Labour has almost nothing to do with socialism, and its religion is mediocrity
Saturday, January 6th, 2024Regular reader Ian Lovegrove read the article I wrote on 3 January about Labour’s apparent plans to deliver tax cuts, in which I attacked DSyarmer’s
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Labour needs to get real experts who know WTAF they’re doing or risk a one term meltdown
Friday, January 5th, 2024Den Howlett is an old friend of mine. Readers of this blog have a lot to thank him for. He was the accountant and tech
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Some thoughts on accounting for the national debt
Friday, January 5th, 2024During a recent discussion on this blog on how to account for the UK’s so-called national debt, regular commentator and bind expert Clive Parry suggested
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Voting for a leader without a cause has never been a good political idea
Friday, January 5th, 2024Tweets referring to my column in The National in Scotland yesterday seemed to cost me about one hundred Twitter followers last night as Labour supporters
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Labour could fund its £28 billion spending plans by simply stopping quantitative tightening. So why isn't it saying that?
Thursday, January 4th, 2024The FT reports this morning that: British politicians should be wary of provoking a backlash in financial markets by increasing borrowing too quickly, the outgoing
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