Evening all from New Zealand :) Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s New Year speech today full of the usual platitudes about “growth” without much in the way of concrete policy as to how this is to be… (View Post)

Yes they are policies of a sort but they seem predicated on borrowing and tariffs which will be inflationary in the medium to longer term though he can bask in his “boom” and take the plaudits of a g… (View Post)

That’s full of ifs, buts and maybes, The real number could be nearly 600,000, it could also be under 400,000. According to ONS figures published in May last year, the population of London was just un… (View Post)

Evening all from New Zealand :) Here, inflation is stuck at 2.2% and more job losses were announced today. I was reminded of that old mantra from the 1980s “ if it isn’t hurting, it isn’t working”. I… (View Post)

Didn’t the Conservative focus groups say the same? (View Post)