David Cameron was wrong and misleading
Including everything the Government has done will leave a couple with children and 1 earner worse off by 2015-16 by £65 a week, or around £3,300 a year
By Ben Chu | Eagle Eye, Econoblog | Thursday, 13 December 2012 at 1:27 pm
George Osborne’s tax haven
We have a Chancellor who complains about tax shopping by multinationals while at the same time slashing UK corporation tax to encourage multinationals to shop around and choose Britain.
By Ben Chu | Eagle Eye, Econoblog | Tuesday, 11 December 2012 at 6:07 pm
The incredible shrinking capital budget
The OBR thinks departments will underspend their capital budgets in both 2013-14 and 2014-15 by £1.5bn, thus effectively cancelling out 60% of the Chancellor’s stimulus.
By Ben Chu | Eagle Eye, Econoblog | Monday, 10 December 2012 at 1:20 pm
How the Chancellor did NOT shrink the deficit
What the Institute For Fiscal Studies found is that the public finances really have deteriorated and that underlying borrowing, on the OBR’s own forecasts, should be £131.9bn this financial year, £10.9bn up on the £121bn 2011/12 deficit.
By Ben Chu | Eagle Eye, Econoblog | Friday, 7 December 2012 at 3:15 pm
Autumn Statement: Osborne’s deficit dissembling
George Osborne had a surprise for us all in his Autumn Statement today
By Ben Chu | Eagle Eye | Wednesday, 5 December 2012 at 6:37 pm
Make bankers wait longer for the bonuses
The justification for deferring bonuses is to incentivise bankers to take more care over the risks they take. What this research shows is that a three-year delay just isn’t long enough to perform this job.
By Ben Chu | Eagle Eye, Econoblog | Tuesday, 4 December 2012 at 12:52 pm
Why I’m worried about Mark Carney’s Governorship
Mr Carney has aggressively attacked the US “Volcker Rule”, which will prevent American investment banks playing the global capital market casino, in strikingly similar terms to the banking lobby. And radical structural reform of the sector looks likely to be anathema to the next Governor.
By Ben Chu | Eagle Eye, Econoblog | Monday, 3 December 2012 at 1:59 pm
George Osborne speaks the language of the banking lobby
How confident do you feel that the Chancellor’s proposed ring-fencing of retail banks will prove robust and protect the public from the need to pick up the future gambling debts of investment bankers?
By Ben Chu | Eagle Eye, Econoblog | Friday, 23 November 2012 at 3:38 pm
Osborne bullies and misleads the Banking Standards Commission
Despite what the Chancellor implied, the Vickers report never did a rigorous cost-benefit analysis of a full separation of retail and investment banking. It was like Hamlet without royalty
By Ben Chu | Eagle Eye, Econoblog | Friday, 23 November 2012 at 2:55 pm
Worry about the zombie economy, not zombie companies
One might describe the problem not as zombie companies, but a zombie economy. Demand has one foot in the grave. If spending across the economy picked up, one would expect many of those struggling companies to return from the living dead.
By Ben Chu | Eagle Eye, Econoblog | Tuesday, 20 November 2012 at 12:13 pm
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