mainly macro

This post is inspired by another , by Jan-Werner Müller. I have talked about Müller's ideas on populism before . This particular post ...

I was not going to write anything about the non-event of Hammond’s Spring statement, in part because I confess I am tired of writing about...

Budget deficits are a constant temptation for politicians. If you want to cut some taxes it is politically easier to do this by borrowing ...

Paul Krugman quite rightly often complains about people he calls professional centrists, who always suggest there is a middle road between...

There have been three constants in the Brexit negotiations so far. The first is that the UK side makes speeches, and the EU side drafts ag...

The Labour government decided to let people from the A8 eastern and central European countries that had just joined the EU to have free ac...

The UK now has a surplus on the government’s current budget. George Osborne tweeted “We got there in the end — a remarkable national effo...