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Showing posts with label 2019 election. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2019 election. Show all posts
Saturday, 30 November 2019

Will UK voters really vote for the Republican party and our own Donald Trump?

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There is so much about today’s Conservative party that is very similar to the Republican party in the US. To establish this, there is no b...
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Wednesday, 27 November 2019

In defence of the IFS, and why it cannot tell the whole story

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Our own fiscal council, the OBR, is very restricted in what it is allowed to say by the party that created it. As a consequence, it is abs...
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Saturday, 16 November 2019

The Tories will never undo the impact of austerity

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One of the impacts of 2010 austerity we saw again last week. Widespread flooding ruining hundreds of homes, and costing a life. Can w...
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Friday, 6 September 2019

Different kinds of fiscal stimulus

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Newspaper day. In the Guardian I have a piece that looks at how we should regard any tax cuts that Boris Johnson may announce as part of ...
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Saturday, 24 August 2019

Why a November General Election looks most likely, and why a government of national unity will not happen.

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When I wrote this based on Johnson winning a November general election, someone asked me whether it was a prediction or a warning. It was...
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Emeritus Professor of Economics and Fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford. This blog is written for both economists and non-economists, and covers macroeconomics but also other economic issues, political economy, the media and politics.
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