UK public finance ahead of Autumn Statement: some positives, more challenges
High wages, inflation and rising interest payments aren’t the only challenges. Spending on benefits that relate to ill health and disability has risen sharply.
High wages, inflation and rising interest payments aren’t the only challenges. Spending on benefits that relate to ill health and disability has risen sharply.
Neil and Jonathan pick through the rubble of the South Pole scandal with environmental consultant Andrew Garraway to find out what went wrong.
Our economies – it applies not only to the UK – are riddled with businesses which have overborrowed and never provided for tougher times.
Volumes traded on the LSE are a fraction of what they once were. Liquidity is migrating to New York where investors are bigger and prepared to take more risks.
Neil and Jonathan speak to self-styled “bond vigilante, Jim Leaviss of M&G, to ask if there has ever been a worse time to hold a gilt.
Barring an abrupt change of course, public sector debt levels will keep on rising. Investors don’t like it.
Neil and Jonathan talk to financial guru Izabella Kaminska about the Gamestop affair, its cultural and historic roots, and whether “flashmob” investing is here to stay.
Can you hear the applause? The hallelujahs? Or perhaps this is pushing the boat out too far, maybe even a few apologies from those who
Neil and Jonathan talk to economic historian Duncan Weldon about Truss’s economic and political legacy and the still unanswered question of how to get more economic growth.
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