We need price controls to fight the living standards crisis
By failing to control prices, the government boosts profits and cuts wages. It’s a straight choice.
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As the CEO of Legal & General, Nigel Wilson controls huge investments in British housing, infrastructure and health.
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Britain has fallen out of love with its housing market
Long-held assumptions about rising house prices are being shattered by the affordability crisis.
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Financial markets may have just predicted a recession
Inversions of the yield curve on US Treasury bonds have preceded most recessions for 150 years. It happened again this…
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Shrinkflation: why a Dairy Milk gets smaller, not more expensive
As inflation rises, manufacturers are at risk of “demand destruction” if they increase prices.
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With trade unions gutted, workers have no protection against soaring inflation
It was ludicrous for the Bank of England governor, Andrew Bailey, to suggest that people are in a meaningful position…
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The UK is facing two lost decades for living standards
Real wages will still be below 2008 levels in 2025.
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Why Rishi Sunak’s Spring Statement has gone down badly with voters
The public may support the Chancellor’s tax cuts but they don’t believe he has come close to addressing the cost-of-living…
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