Brexit: Darling-style stimulus package could boost growth, says IFS
Osborne’s £25 billion black hole should not be filled, says think tank
Osborne’s £25 billion black hole should not be filled, says think tank
The latest economic package won’t provide durable stimulus
With evidence overwhelmingly pointing to the need for demand boosting measures to kick-start the economy, we need to ask City economists the same question that John Maynard Keynes asked when challenged about his change in economic policy to tackle the Great Depression in the 1930s:
“When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?”
The government’s rejection of stimulus measures to promote growth has left the British economy static, with declining growth and increasing inflation.
While the US economy shows encouraging signs of recovery, we in the UK are paying for chancellor George Osbourne’s own misguided version of Voodoo Economics.
Asthma UK’s Neil Churchill argues that if the government are so keen to introduce tax cuts as stimulus, prescription charges should be first to go.
Marcus Roberts looks at what happens when the ‘political reality’ prevents you from doing what is actually best
Ann Pettifor looks to the economy in 2012, and is not hopeful about what she sees.
Ed Jacobs writes about the Scottish infrastructure investment plan, announced mere days after the Conservative one.
Alex Hern warns that, necessary as an economic stimulus is, it could simply end up being a hand-out to big business.