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Keir Starmer can show UK is ‘open for business’, says former Bank of England chief economist Andy Haldane

Consumers started their Christmas shopping early, Kantar says; UK jobless rate rises to 4.3% while wage growth excluding bonuses is at a two-year low

If nothing else, economists are good at naming things. Malthusianism, Abenomics or, my personal favourite, Baumol's cost disease. But for policymakers, the most important theory is perhaps the Laffer curve, named after the American economist Arthur Laffer, who argued there is a theoretical tax rate at which maximum revenue is…

Chancellor’s warnings hampered post-election ‘sense of refresh’, says Andy Haldane

The new government has promised things will be different: but when it comes to spending, we seem stuck on old Tory policies

LABOUR have been urged to heed a former chief economist of the Bank of England who warned that there was only a “lettuce leaf” between their…

Is the Bank of England up to the job of managing the UK's monetary policy? The leader of The Campaign for Fair Finance Dr Roger Gewolb offered me his views of the UK's central bank.

UK central bank faces criticism for keeping Bank Rate at 5.25% after a shock rate cut in Switzerland and a hike in Turkey today

Former chief economist Andy Haldane says keeping rates high could ‘crush the economy’