This got tabled by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez yesterday: It does not mean it will become law. But little by little, things change.
The Labour fiscal rule is common sense….
I was at a meeting last night where John McDonnell said that the Labour Party fiscal rule is common sense. After all, it says a
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Bling is no substitute
Apple has lost its edge. Fewer people are buying its jewellery, which is what any phone costing more than £200 appears to be to me.
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Fisking the Bank of England interest rate announcement
The Bank of England has just published this after announcing no change to interest rates or quantitative easing this month. I add commentary in between
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Time is pressing
I gave a talk at Cambridge Econometrics yesterday, where I am a director. They tweeted it and let out the secret that the profile picture on
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Bogus numbers
The world really is full of crap. That’s my abbreviation for Completely Rubbish Approximations to the truth. Take this report I saw yesterday based on
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The UK government is paying lip service to tax justice
The Tax Justice Network reported yesterday that: Analysis of more than 600 US multinational corporations has revealed that 12 per cent failed to comply with
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Special places in hell
We now know that Donald Tusk thinks there is a special place reserved in hell for Brexiteers. I wholly understand his sentiment. And let’s assume
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