Is Nigel Farage right about the Bank of England?
The populist right should not be the ones to take on neoliberal monetary orthodoxies.
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What Westminster isn’t telling you about our GDP figures
Jeremy Hunt says the UK economy is back to “full health”, but Rachel Reeves claims we have gone from “no…
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Liz Truss is right about the Deep State
Among the ridiculous complaints, excuses and conspiracies, the ex-prime minister makes one important point.
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How Labour can free itself from the tyranny of the bond market
The party could save up to £130bn by abandoning the Bank of England’s reckless quantitative tightening.
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Mortgages are approaching a new cliff edge
Why Jeremy Hunt can’t stop the housing crash.
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Britain’s great tax con
The UK’s tax system entrenches inequality, stymies growth, and rewards a few at the expense of the many.
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Is anybody running the Bank of England?
It’s the young and poor who pay for their relentless hike of interest rates.
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Adam Posen: “Brexit is a trade war by the UK on itself”
The US economist and former Monetary Policy Committee member on how Britain became so poor and where Labour is going…
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Is the Bank of England raising interest rates too far?
The base rate has risen to 5.25 per cent. Will it do more harm than good?
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Why Britain is broke, with Ed Conway
The Bank of England can't break the cycle of economic pain.
The Bank of England has lots more pain to inflict
Inflation is rising less fast than expected – but that may not be much help.
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The Bank of England is complicit in the Tories’ economic failures
Andrew Bailey incurs the public’s wrath for today’s economic pain, but his predecessors have questions to answer as well.
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Broke Britannia
Britain is trapped in a cycle of inflation and economic pain. What will it take to break it?
By The illusion of prosperity is over
Politicians can no longer count on low inflation to mask the structural flaws of the British economy.
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Andrew Bailey must go
The Bank of England has no hope of regaining trust under its current governor.
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The age of cheap money is over
As interest rates surge, Britain needs a new economic model not based on a toxic housing market.
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The UK’s mortgage time bomb is now ticking louder than ever
By the next election, housing will represent either a higher long-term cost or a damaged investment for almost everyone in…
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The markets are having their revenge on Rishi Sunak
Investors continue to charge a “moron premium” for the UK’s economic mismanagement.
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The age of greedflation
How corporate profiteering is making us poorer.
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We’re getting poorer at a slightly slower rate than last month
Inflation has fallen to 8.7 per cent, but prices – especially food – are still rising dangerously.
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