As the Guardian reports this morning: Rachel Reeves will announce at the International Monetary Fund a plan to change Britain’s debt rules that will open
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Will Rachel Reeves’ NI hike crush UK economic growth?
Rachel Reeves wants growth, and it’s thought she’s going to seriously increase employers’ national insurance contributions, which is most likely to stop that happening. Why
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The insanity of financial markets
This is the opening of an IMF email issued yesterday: As inflation and interest rates continue to decline and the likelihood of a recession slowly fades,
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Labour’s solution to the water industry crisis is to do anything but what’s needed
The FT carries a report this morning that notes that: Water regulator Ofwat could be overhauled or even replaced under the most far-reaching review of
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Trump, the fascist, threatens us all
The FT carries an article this morning that begins by noting that: Donald Trump’s longest-serving White House chief of staff has said the former president
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Keir Starmer’s big mistake: confusing money with capital?
Keir Starmer is desperate for foreign money to fund British investment, but that makes no sense at all. This is the audio version of this
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Dan Neidle’s tax proposals are all about perpetuating existing economic power structures within out society
The issues that I have raised with Dan Neidle’s tax proposals appear to continue to attract interest. In particular, there are some commentators who seem
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If this is the standard of analysis at the Bank of England we need to worry
I was intrigued by an article by Megan Greene, who is an external member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee, in the Financial
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Big and small businesses are nothing like each other
To pretend that there is almost any similarity between small and big businesses is absurd. Small businesses have to serve us, or they fail. Big
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