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There’s massive misunderstanding about what QE is and what it does. So please forgive a long thread on one of the most important tools used in modern economics, which if

I have been asked by a number of people, from MPs onwards, to prepare answers to the types of questions being commonly asked about the economy in the Covid era.

Rarely has the UK faced an existential crisis like the one it does at this moment. The relationships between its member nations are uncertain. We face meltdown with the EU,

The government is going to do £450bn of quantitative easing (QE) this year. That should more than cover its total borrowing fir the year, meaning the actual sum owed to

We have to face the possibility that our government is planning economic destruction for its own political ends – which are the demise of the state as we know it

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