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Comment on macroeconomic issues
Tuesday, 5 March 2024
Rishi Sunak doesn’t want to talk about Islamophobia because he wants to use it
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This week I was going to post the final part of my ‘detoxifying government debt’ series, but Sunak’s statement from No.10 last week means ...
Tuesday, 27 February 2024
Detoxifying government debt, part 3. The Truss crisis has no relevance for Labour borrowing to invest
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Over the last fifteen years the UK has experienced or witnessed three crises stemming from financial markets, the Global Financial Crisis,...
Tuesday, 20 February 2024
Detoxifying government debt, part 2. Market myths
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“Labour’s biggest opponent is no longer the Conservative Party . It is the bond market.” That was the first sentence I read a few days ago...
Tuesday, 13 February 2024
Detoxifying government debt, part 1. Debt is also an asset
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Perhaps Labour scaling back its proposed green investment is just a pre-election ploy, and will have no implications for what they do in g...
Tuesday, 6 February 2024
One Rule to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them
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What a future Labour government will be able to do in terms of repairing both our broken public services, our broken economy, and getting ...
Tuesday, 30 January 2024
The evolution of the UK Conservative party since 1979
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This is in part a follow-up to my post two weeks ago , which argued that parties of the centre-right that adopt unpopular right wing econo...
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