Eomics
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Thursday, 29 March 2018
Article 50: One year on
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It is now exactly a year since Theresa May stood before UK parliament and announced that she was triggering the Article 50 mechanism that w...
Wednesday, 28 March 2018
Examining the case for a wealth tax
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I have pointed out previously that the huge fiscal tightening imposed on the UK over the past eight years has come about through huge cuts i...
Saturday, 24 March 2018
China crisis
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The announcement that the US government plans to impose tariffs of 25% on $50 bn of goods imported from China has set the cat amongst the pi...
Monday, 19 March 2018
Should we continue spending a penny?
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One of the policy ideas that was floated in the wake of last week’s UK Spring Statement was the possibility of scrapping the lowest denomin...
Tuesday, 13 March 2018
UK fiscal update: Counting the Brexit costs
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Just four months after the Chancellor presented an autumn budget, and with no new fiscal measures scheduled today, it was rather puzzling wh...
Saturday, 10 March 2018
Making sense of social trends
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Populism has been at the top of the political agenda for much of the last two years. It is manifest in the Brexit vote; the election of Dona...
Wednesday, 7 March 2018
Steeled for trouble
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The announcement last week by Donald Trump that he intends to levy tariffs on US imports of steel and aluminium, of 25% and 10% respectively...
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