I have just had this drawn to my attention. It comes from the Sunday Times this weekend. It is from an interview with Andrew Bailey,
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If a gas company can be too big to fail why shouldn’t the supply of domestic gas be nationalised?
As the FT has noted: The UK energy crisis has claimed its biggest victim with Bulb, Britain’s seventh-biggest supplier, to enter special administration backed by
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As the Prime Minister waffles on about Peppa Pig the NHS is being dismantled. It is entirely possible that his behaviour is designed to distract from that fact.
As the BBC notes, this is the measure that Tory MPs voted for last night: As I have previously noted, this graphic representation is of
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Why multi-millionaires pay too little in tax
It is a fact that multi-millionaires pay too little in tax in the UK and many other countries. This is not just because some of
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The Counterbalance: How finance drives monopoly
As has been my habit since it began publishing, I republish here the least edition of The Counterbalance, which is published by The Balanced Economy
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A funding update
Every now and then I need to provide an update on my funding in the interests of transparency, which is something I have spent so
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Monetary policy is dead: what we need is new thinking on how fiscal policy can really control inflation
There is an article by Ruchir Sharma, who is Morgan Stanley Investment Management’s chief global strategist, in the FT today. In it he argues that
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Is the audit market dying, and if so, what next? Has the time for state audit of large companies arrived?
Two reports have added piquancy to the series of Audit Briefings that I am beginning to feature on this blog, the second of which will
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Labour’s commitment to balancing the books destroys any chance it has of delivering the policy agenda the UK needs
As the Guardian notes this morning: Keir Starmer will make a pitch to win over Britain’s business leaders by promising a Labour government will not
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