mainly macro

  What Trump’s war against Iran tells us about the US government, the UK political right and the mainstream media in both countries What...

  It was a great result for the Greens, and a terrible result for Labour. Although Reform didn’t win the Gorton and Denton by-election, by c...

  Ben Zaranko of the IFS has just published a paper on fiscal rule s. It is well researched and well written, but I disagree with its conclu...

  I must confess that this post will be very similar to one I wrote a fortnight ago. The big difference is that this is about this Labour g...

  When I write about fiscal watchdogs like the OBR in the UK, I generally get some comments along the lines that these watchdogs produce tec...