If you want to read my reaction to the budget you really have to read my twitter feed, but I did just also share this
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There is a choice on coronavirus: we can save people or the economy but not both, and the government is choosing the economy
I was talked through the choices that this government is making on the epidemiology of coronavirus by someone who has some insight into the subject
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Sunak has to show he understands deficits today or he’s doomed from the start – and so are we
It is budget day. Rishi Sunak has the task of delivering what might be the most irrelevant budget I will have ever witnessed, unless he
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The Bank of England has delivered its gesture and now passed the buck to the Chancellor
The Bank of England has announced a 0.5% cut in the official base rate in response to the coronavirus, taking that official rate to 0.25%,
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UK policy towards coronavirus
Italy is developing the right economic ideas on how to manage coronavirus and Trump is not
The BBC has reported that: Mortgage payments will be suspended across Italy as part of measures to soften the economic blow of coronavirus on households,
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The OECD needs to embrace radical reform to its country-by-country reporting standard
The OECD published the 79 comments it received on its consultation on the future of its version of country-by-country reporting yesterday. I should make a confession
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We’re in panic mode: what the government does now is key to our short term future
There remains a little doubt about whether or not there will be a coronavirus epidemic. I think, based on what he’s saying, that the UK
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What’s different about this crash from 2008?
I spoke to an old friend this afternoon, and we discussed the onset of what we both see as a global recession from which we
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