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“Rishi Sunak sets up review to tackle ‘anti-maths mindset'”
If you’re a client, you might not find it particularly comforting to know that I hated maths at...
“UK wages grow faster than expected in the last quarter of 2022”
So here’s the dilemma for the Bank of England. Do they push up interest rates further, pushing...
“How the world economy could avoid recession”
Fund managers can often sound like politicians; or economists; or even weather forecasters. ‘The...
“CBI boss urges Sunak to show more ambition on economy”
For the first time for a long-time, someone with some positive, non-binary (in the old sense)...
“Passive funds leak £4.5bn in first annual outflow since 2015”
‘Passive’ funds are full of investments which track stock market indices of various kinds. Some of...
“Rishi Sunak wants all pupils to study maths to age 18”
‘You must have been really good at maths at school’ and bet you love numbers’ I often hear. The...
“Electric car owners may face taxes within three years”
Had my first visit to London Central Proper in three years and realised I’ve missed it. Many of my...
“Pound rebounds: How have the markets reacted to Rishi Sunak becoming PM?”
Every single joke and witty aside that could be, has been made. So I thought that some idea of the...
“Our next prime minister is still far from obvious”
The final choice, of course, will be down to the 0.3% of the population who comprise the Party...
“More than a fifth of top earning bankers have non-dom status says major new study”
#TaxtheRich pops up all over Twitter and the internet. Sounds easy, but actually no easier than...
“OBR warns of big fall in living standards”
The OBR, the Office of Budget Responsibility, is stuffed full of economists. The good news, if...
“Tax cuts fail to save lacklustre Spring Statement”
Maybe it’s all down to presentation, but no-one seems to have thought much of Rishi’s ‘moment to...
“Sunak urges finance sector to seize Brexit dividend”
It is true that many of the more box-ticking rules by which we hard-done-by souls in financial...
“Rishi Sunak to save billions by counting IMF cash as aid for poor”
I can just hear conversations amongst the older generations of my childhood: 'Charity begins at...