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‘Labour will surpass your expectations’: the leftwing thinktank boss standing on Starmer’s agenda | Economics

Miatta Fahnbulleh has been talking about economic transformation for as long as she can remember. After she and her family…

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Politics

The Guardian view on rethinking economics: a discipline in disarray holds too much sway in the UK | Editorial

When Labour’s Gordon Brown embraced “post neo-classical endogenous growth theory” in 1994, he was ridiculed by his opponents. This said…

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Politics

Rachel Reeves: Treasury will ‘hardwire’ growth into tax and spending decisions | Economics

The Treasury under a Labour government would “hardwire” raising Britain’s growth rate into its budget tax and spending decisions as…

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Politics

Toxic budgets: the UK chancellors who left a poisonous legacy | Economics

There are budgets that fall apart within minutes of the chancellor delivering his Commons speech: think of George Osborne’s pasty…

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Politics

Fourteen years of Tory economics – ‘major mistakes’ and ‘crisis after crisis’ | Budget 2024 (spring)

The past 14 years have been a white-knuckle ride for the British economy. Record low interest rates, money creation from…

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Politics

Unions warn against watering down Labour reforms of workers’ rights and ban on zero-hours contracts | Economics

Union leaders have warned business groups against pushing Keir Starmer to water down Labour’s plans to introduce sweeping reforms of…

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Money

This fund manager stopped worrying about economics. He’s outperforming the market.

A change in strategy has helped transform the GoodHaven Fund from a long-term underperformer into an outperformer since the end…

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