{"id":92308,"date":"2026-05-15T08:21:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T07:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=92308"},"modified":"2026-05-15T08:21:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T07:21:47","slug":"the-bond-market-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/05\/15\/the-bond-market-conspiracy\/","title":{"rendered":"The bond market conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I could write a lot about bond markets, the media, and the conspiracy they have created by mutual consent to deny democratic choice in this country, or I could just <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RichardJMurphy\/status\/2055182845291733196\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">repost this tweet<\/a> I put out this morning, which pretty much says it all:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-92309\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-15-at-08.17.37-550x392.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-15-at-08.17.37-550x392.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-15-at-08.17.37-421x300.png 421w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-15-at-08.17.37-768x547.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-15-at-08.17.37-562x400.png 562w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-15-at-08.17.37.png 944w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I could write a lot about bond markets, the media, and the conspiracy they have created by mutual consent to deny democratic choice in this<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/05\/15\/the-bond-market-conspiracy\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,47,136,14,204,35,16,147,224,106,223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bonds","category-bonds-2","category-city-of-london","category-corruption","category-economic-justice","category-economics","category-ethics","category-inequality","category-neoliberalism","category-politics","category-politics-of-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92310,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92308\/revisions\/92310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}