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20 September 2021 08:40

As the Guardian has reported: Andy Haldane, the former Bank of England chief economist appointed on Sunday as the head of the government’s levelling up Read the full article...

If ever there was a wrong person for a job on levelling up then Andy Haldane is it

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20 September 2021 08:13

As the FT has noted this morning: John Glen, City minister, has vowed that Britain’s financial services sector will enjoy “competitive tax rates” as he Read the full article...

It’s tax cut and big bonus time for the City of London

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20 September 2021 08:00

As an FT newsletter nites this morning: The UK’s largest energy suppliers are requesting a multibillion-pound emergency support package from the government to help them Read the full article...

The gas price crisis is the surest indication that Thatcherism has failed

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19 September 2021 09:26

Gillian Tett has noted in the FT this morning that: The Institute of International Finance calculates that total global debt hit a record $296tn at the Read the full article...

Debt is not as much of a problem as the growing inequality that increasing debt represents

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19 September 2021 08:39

The London based Institute for Government has opined on Scotland’s currency options in the event of independence. The result is, unfortunately, very London-centric. To give Read the full article...

Can Scotland afford to be independent? The answer, of course, is yes

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18 September 2021 09:01

As I suggested I would be, I have been reflecting this week. Some has been personal reflection. Empty nesting without even having a dog around Read the full article...

The economy we had has gone: the systems that underpinned it are no longer sustainable

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17 September 2021 08:39

The World Bank issued this statement yesterday: The report from the lawyers who undertook the investigation for the World Bank to which that statement refers Read the full article...

The World Bank has confessed its failings. It doesn’t need to be scrapped for doing so

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17 September 2021 07:39

As the FT notes this morning, Rishi Sunak is planning a new fiscal rule. It will commit him to stop borrowing to fund day-to-day spending within Read the full article...

Sunak’s planning a fiscal rule, and they always end in tears

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16 September 2021 19:39

As I noted earlier today HMRC published their tax gap data for 2020 this morning. I have been distracted all day by other demands, but Read the full article...

HMRC’s tax gap measure suggests that its claims to be making the tax system easier to use are not justified

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16 September 2021 08:52

HMRC are issuing their tax gap data this morning. Unfortunately I will be committed for much of the day: comment will have to wait. But, if Read the full article...

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16 September 2021 08:26

I noted this opening paragraph to an article in the FT this morning: The Financial Conduct Authority has launched a push to encourage 1.7m people Read the full article...

The FCA should not be encouraging people to take risk they do not want

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16 September 2021 08:13

The FT has reported today that: More than four-fifths of employees at PwC UK come from a higher socio-economic background, according to data that for Read the full article...

We need accounting for employees

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16 September 2021 08:01

The FT has reported this morning that: China has launched a crackdown on financial blogs and social media, a move that risks exacerbating the difficulty Read the full article...

China cracks down on financial bloggers

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15 September 2021 08:52

The FT has this to say this morning: The research is by Carbon Tracker and I cannot, as yet, find it on their site, but Read the full article...

The accounting profession is failing us all on climate change

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15 September 2021 08:27

One of the features of sustainable cost accounting that its critics are not to keen on is my suggestion that offsetting not be permitted within Read the full article...

The fictional markets in environmental assets that the financiers are dreaming up are not going to solve the climate crisis

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15 September 2021 08:13

I watched some of the press conference led by the prime minister yesterday on the government’s plan for managing Covid this winter. I then tweeted Read the full article...

Is Johnson doing a Baldrick?

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14 September 2021 08:52

As some will have noticed, it is not quite normal service on the blog this week. I admit I am taking a quiet week to Read the full article...

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14 September 2021 08:01

Tim Rideout has asked me to publish this guide created by the Scottish Currency Group and I am happy to do so: 1. When will Read the full article...

The Quick Guide to the new Scottish Currency

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13 September 2021 10:40

I noted yesterday the criticisms that can entirely appropriately be made of those who suggest modern monetary theory (MMT) is dangerous, and even wrong because Read the full article...

Tax and modern monetary theory

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13 September 2021 09:00

One of the characteristics of Boris Johnson’s government is its ability to pretend that events will happen when evidence suggests that to be very unlikely. Read the full article...

Falsehoods cannot win against this pandemic, but that will not stop this government trying them