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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The scourge of greedflation
A fifth of the UK is going hungry. Yet this is a crisis the political class seems unable to grasp.
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“It’s a gravy train”: one surveyor’s fight to fix Britain’s leasehold system
For two decades, leaseholders are said to have been overpaying by up to £500m a year
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Interest rates are fuelling a great banking rip-off
As the Bank of England tries to fight inflation, commercial banks are enjoying bumper profits.
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We are poorer – but what are our politicians doing about it?
Labour and the Conservatives promise high economic growth but have no plans equal to the scale of the task.
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Why didn’t Huw Pill point the finger at “greedflation”?
The furore over the chief economist’s comments suggests the Bank of England should be more open about the causes of…
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