The so-called Yellowhammer report is wrong. I can say that with absolute confidence. Every forecast is, and I’ve delivered a lot in my time, always
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Will the Scottish Court’s decision lead to Article 50 notice failing?
In the light of the decision of a Scottish Court on the illegality of Boris Johnson’s request to the Queen that Parliament be prorogued I
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Forcing business to face its responsibilities with regard to the climate crisis
I was asked by a person with a political persuasion to prepare some slides for them so that they might present my ideas on what
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Replacing the economics of indifference with the economics of concern
A good friend of mine has been advising me to breathe deeply of late. He feels it might be good for me, so wide is
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Prorogued
Parliament has been prorogued. I happened to be in Westminster last night. There were a lot of unhappy members about. For me the timing is
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Central bank independence is based on false politics and economics
This is my kind of macroeconomics: The abstract says: The case for central bank independence is built on an intellectual two-step. Step one argues there
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Getting MMT wrong in the name of Marx
If you want a giggle this analysis of MMT from a hard Marxist perspective is amusing for the politics and economics geek. Written by Adam
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The death throes of old style globalisation
As the FT notes this morning, an IMF report authored by Jannick Damgaard, Thomas Elkjaer, and Niels Johannesen of Copehngane University has suggested that: A
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IPPR joins the call fro capital gains to be taxed as income
IPPR has issued a report this morning calling for the alignment of tax rates on capital gains tax with the equivalent income tax rate applicable
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