The government is as adamant as ever this morning that it cannot afford to address the NHS doctor’s pay dispute. They are offering 2% when
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Is flying over?
As the FT notes this morning: European aviation faces more than €800bn in extra costs to reach net zero emissions by 2050, according to industry
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EY’s failed merger: an exercise in value destruction
The FT noted this morning that: EY has scrapped plans to break up its audit and consulting businesses after months of internal disagreement and opposition
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The cost of living crisis is now seriously reducing people’s financial resilience
Investment advisers Hargreaves Lansdown have a pretty slick media operation these days. This sent me this comment and table this morning: Runaway inflation has ravaged
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Eventually the Bank of England will have to give in. Interest rates are going to fall.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) blog is usually worth reading. I subscribe to its email feed, as a result of which I saw its forecast
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MMT and tax: an issue that needs to be addressed again
As those who follow, my Twitter account will be aware, I was involved in a spat with Warren Mosler and those who follow his ideas
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TLDR
For those not familiar with the term ‘TLDR’ it stands for ‘too long, didn’t read’. This was the subject of discussion over dinner in the
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Never give up
I noted articles in the Guardian this weekend recording, in the first instance, the death of Ben Ferencz, who was the last surviving prosecutor from
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Labour must open a debate about the issue of publicly generated money
Prof Mary Mellor (emeritus professor of economics, Northumbria University, and the author of several excellent books on the nature of money) had this letter in
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