If you did not listen to The Echo Chamber podcast that I posted yesterday the short clip in this tweet might be worth a listen.
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Pension reform should be all about improving the flow of funds to the government, not companies
This FT headline is the best response I have seen to Rachel Reeves’ demand that UK pensions be reformed to support British companies: For once
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Things can only get worse if the Bank of England continues to get its way
Wednesday’s inflation news has provoked a perverse reaction. Although inflation fell considerably, because a bigger fall was expected, financial markets are now speculating that Bank
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The purveyors of prejudice
John Burns-Murdoch is an FT journalist who does brilliant data analysis. He has a data comparison of the UK and USA today, suggesting as a
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From darkness into bleak
My latest podcast with Tony and Martin from The Echo Chamber podcast in Ireland is now out. Recorded a little over a week ago, it
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Rachel Reeves needs to develop some decent ideas very quickly
Shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves MP, explained her vision for the UK economy to the Peterson Institute in Washington DC, yesterday. You can watch the whole
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DeSantis is not exactly a libertarian
I rather liked this comment by Robert Reich, a former US Labour Secretary under Bill Clinton, who said in his Substack newsletter of US Republican
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Failure in the UK is plain to see
These four items were all headlines in this morning’s Guardian newspaper business newsletter: In turn we get: The exploitation of a public necessity – water
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The issue around Johnson’s partying is not about his guilt. It is about whether democracy will be upheld.
The emergence of new allegations that Boris Johnson broke lockdown rules with regard to Covid on many newly discovered occasions does matter. There has been
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