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Comment on macroeconomic issues

Monday, 26 June 2023

Wishful thinking on UK inflation

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  I have been surprised by the extent and persistence of UK inflation over the last few months, along with many others. So what did I get wr...
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Tuesday, 20 June 2023

Sunak is right to fear the Covid Public Inquiry, but the right wing press will remain unscathed by it

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  My rule of thumb for this government is if it trumpets that it’s doing something, it is probably doing the opposite. [1] George Osborne ke...
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Tuesday, 13 June 2023

The campaign against Labour borrowing to invest

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  One of the positive highlights of Labour's economic plans that I discussed last week , investment of £28 billion a year in greening th...
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Tuesday, 6 June 2023

Rachel Reeves economic strategy

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  On 23rd May Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, gave a speech in Washington DC and published a paper entitled “Labour’s plan for a ...
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Tuesday, 30 May 2023

Why the Conservative stance on immigration made a Hard Brexit inevitable

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  In a recent post I discussed the UKIP insurgency, and argued that its main source was a contradiction within the strategy of the Conserva...
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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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