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07 February 2023 14:15

The disillusionment with the Tories is justified. Why is labour riding so high? Are the public really unaware that they are in a great many Read the full article...

The baffling polling statistics

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07 February 2023 08:40

Almost exactly a year ago I wrote the following blog saying that what the UK required was fundamental energy reform, not the tinkering that Sunak Read the full article...

A year ago I said we needed fundamental energy market reform. A year in nothing has happened and we are all paying the price for that

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07 February 2023 08:15

There is much discussion in the media today about the possibility that the Bank of England might create a digital currency for use in the Read the full article...

The UK does not need a digital currency: the vanity of central bankers does

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06 February 2023 09:02

I missed this data when it came out, but it seems worth sharing: The first thing to note is that Covid killed one in twelve Read the full article...

Why aren’t we bothered about small business?

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06 February 2023 08:53

Two ideas came in last week as a result of the discussion on the glossary. One was from regular commentator Ian Tresman. His suggestion is Read the full article...

Time to update the blog design?

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06 February 2023 08:27

When I wrote about the glossary last week I thought it was largely done, barring some accounting issues that I knew were missing. I added Read the full article...

An update on the glossary

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06 February 2023 07:27

The FT notes this morning that: Rishi Sunak has been warned by senior Conservatives that he would face a significant rebellion and certain defeat in Read the full article...

Lame duck Sunak awaits his fate as the country stagnates

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05 February 2023 09:40

There must be some politically aware, people who have not seen or heard of Liz Truss' 4,000-word article in the Sunday Telegraph today, in which Read the full article...

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03 February 2023 08:28

The Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee report issued yesterday makes grim reading. These charts are all from the first chapter on the economic outlook: Read the full article...

The UK is facing economic failure on a grand scale, and the Bank of England is just compounding it

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03 February 2023 07:15

I posted this tweet last night and it seems to have been both popular and the inspiration for a lot of comments: Who has caused Read the full article...

Who has caused inflation in the UK?

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03 February 2023 06:53

A couple of weeks ago I posted a few pages from the 1935 book ‘Housewives And Downing Street’ which provided one possible explanation of the Read the full article...

Housewives and Downing Street

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02 February 2023 17:28

I realised recently that the time had come to replace both my iPad and my aging iPhone, not least because battery lives do eventually fade, Read the full article...

New tech for the blog

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02 February 2023 17:17

A newsletter worth subscribing to is that all of the New Economy Brief. This comes form their latest newsletter and covered an important topic in Read the full article...

Solvency II in the New Economy Brief

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02 February 2023 08:41

A year ago I was setting out on writing a book. That book was one of the casualties of my long-Covid in the second half Read the full article...

A glossary of economics, tax and accounting

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02 February 2023 08:15

This chart is from the New Statesman: Let me be honest. I really do not think that is a likely election result. I suspect the Read the full article...

Things might, and can, only get worse

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02 February 2023 07:17

The Bank of England will be raising interest rates today. They are likely to increase their base rate from 3.5% to 4%. There is no Read the full article...

The Bank of England will continue with its policy of laying waste to the UK economy today

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01 February 2023 08:41

I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: We face the biggest group of strikes in recent history today. That is not surprising. A belligerent Read the full article...

Those on strike not only deserve the pay they’re demanding, we need them to get it if the economy is to survive

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31 January 2023 09:28

The BBC commissioned a report from Michael Blastland and Andrew Dilnot that was submitted to the BBC in November and has now been published. It Read the full article...

Is the BBC’s reporting on economics impartial?

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31 January 2023 08:28

From the FT this morning: The message is simple: if we are to save the planet we have to tax the rich because they massively Read the full article...

If we’re to save the planet we have to tax the rich

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31 January 2023 07:53

The IMF has issued new growth forecasts for the world. They are better than expected for almost every country, except one, which is the UK: Read the full article...