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Showing posts with label spin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spin. Show all posts
Tuesday, 20 October 2015

Linking tax credits and the fiscal charter

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I have made fun in the past about Labour politicians and supporters who in public trip up once the word borrowing is mentioned. An interv...
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Tuesday, 11 August 2015

The Corbyn Phenomenon

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For readers not in the UK, some background. When Ed Miliband resigned as Labour leader after the 2015 election defeat, the election process...
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Tuesday, 12 May 2015

Don’t ask what lost, ask what won

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I took a short break after the election, so I managed to avoid most of the immediate post-election analysis. But I could not avoid seeing ...
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Wednesday, 11 December 2013

The UK’s macroeconomic battleground to come

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The Institute for Fiscal Studies’ (IFS) analysis of the specific measures in the Autumn Statement shows a certain degree of frustration. F...
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Sunday, 6 January 2013

Avoiding the B word

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As I briefly listened to the radio the other morning, I heard the new head of the TUC (Trades Union Congress) talking about macr...
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Friday, 18 May 2012

Dangerous Voices and Macroeconomic Spin

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                Dangerous voices are what the British Prime Minister called those who criticised austerity in a speech on Thursday. In re...
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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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