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Comment on macroeconomic issues
Tuesday, 5 November 2024
The Markets, the Budget, the Media and electing a Fascist
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Our readers are too stupid to understand financial arbitrage and very basic macroeconomics, so we will pretend financial markets are like ...
Thursday, 31 October 2024
A budget that points the way but doesn’t get us very far
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Did Rachel Reeves set Labour on a path to ending austerity, and making up for the lack of public investment over the last fourteen years? ...
Tuesday, 22 October 2024
October Budget 7: Soaking the rich?
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This, my final post on the forthcoming budget, is designed to provide a guide to how to read what Reeves announces (or doesn’t announce) i...
Tuesday, 15 October 2024
October Budget 6: Thanks to Truss, bond market scare stories are back
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In truth they never went away, but after Truss there is a danger that they will be taken more seriously. The FT recently published a clas...
Tuesday, 8 October 2024
Why are the Conservatives ignoring the median voter?
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If the candidates for the Tory leadership sound much like ministers in the last year of the Conservative government, it’s because the leader...
Tuesday, 1 October 2024
October Budget 5. The UK’s Fiscal rules: one good and one bad
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On 30th October Rachel Reeves will be setting out her first budget, rather than responding to someone else’s decisions. She will be leadin...
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