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Duncan Weldon
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Duncan Weldon
@DuncanWeldon
Economist, broadcaster & writer. Author of 200 Years of Muddling Through. Economics, history, other stuff.
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Joined September 2009
Cancelling Xmas 6 days before Xmas because you couldn’t face the pain of cancelling Xmas 10 days before Xmas.- I’ve been following U.K. budgets for 20 years or so. I have often profoundly disagreed with the decisions made. But I’ve always at least - sort of - understood the logic behind them. Today is a new for me. I genuinely don’t understand the decision making process.
- Ironic that it will be Oxford University that finally allows the country to drop its obsession with PPE.
- They. Have. Not. Deliberately. Crashed. Sterling. To. Help. Hedge. Funds.
- A trade war with your largest trading partner is not a good idea. A trade war with your largest trading partner when growth is already slowing and inflation is high is possibly the stupidest economic policy suggestion I’ve ever encountered.
- Tremendous. The second person to receive the Oxford vaccine has managed to causally mention that he went to Oxford when being interviewed about it.
- So, I think Labour conference just voted to give the Lib Dems about 1.5 million votes. Very generous of them.
- I’m really not sure this is the best use of council resources.
- I genuinely don’t understand the journey from Thatcherite true believer in markets to advocate of North Korean style self sufficiency that some Conservatives seem to have taken. It’s astonishing.
- If Barry became PM then every Wednesday we could have Gardiner’s Question Time.
- I’m not sure I’ve ever seen such a negative reaction to a budget across the media and economic wonk-land.
- It’s the 18th June. So it’s time for this gif. pic.x.com/iIyVqI3dLM
