I have reviewed the Bank of England’s latest survey of opinion on inflation, which has just been published. The results are, to be kind, quite
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The government will save £60 billion with its pay settlement with the nurses, and destroy the NHS and the health of the nation
I have just posted this thread on Twitter: The news that there had been a (bad) pay offer in the NHS pay dispute still gave
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230,000
This took a long time to arrive: I reached 220,000 followers last December, having been accumulating 10,000 or more new followers a month for most
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The UK government’s money: where it is spent and how it is reclaimed
These two charts used to be the opening data in budget reports. Now they are consigned to the very end, but they do give a
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The NHS pay deal looks like a perpetual 6.4% pay cut to me
I have done my workings on the NHS pay deal and I am completely baffled that any union would accept what is on offer. First,
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QE is back in town – big time – but only for US banks
As the Guardian has reported this morning: Cash-short banks have borrowed about $300bn from the Federal Reserve in the past week, the central bank announced
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Banking is welfare for the wealthy, and there are no limits
Are Silicon Valley Bank and Credit Suisse the start of a new banking crisis? First there was a run on Silicon Valley Bank in the
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Should I take on Tufton Street?
I was in Jeremy Vine’s studio at the BBC talking about the budget yesterday. As usual, and as has been the case for more than
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The morning after the budget.
The morning after is always a time for reflection. Once the heat of the day has passed what is left to muse on? This is
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