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"The English Housing Survey consistently reveals a tale of two Englands: for some, home is a safe haven and a substantial asset; for millions of others in the private and social rented sectors, it's a...
Read More →"Spend now, pay later." - Helen Miller, chief exec of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, nicely framed. This week’s quote pertains to the deep dive, as usual, and I tackle the Budget summary from a cou...
Read More →"Property taxes are an interaction between stamp duty, council tax, capital gains tax, and inheritance tax. You don’t solve that problem by just adding another wealth tax to it." - Lord (Mervyn) King,...
Read More →“By sticking to our deficit reduction plans we can keep interest rates low. And it is, I think, hard to overstate the fundamental importance of low interest rates for an economy as indebted as ours......
Read More →"AI won't replace humans, but those who use AI will replace those who don't ." — Garry Kasparov, Chess Grandmaster This week’s quote is a reference to the AI-powered experimental version of the...
Read More →“London isn't as sought after as it was a decade ago" - Damian Shepherd, Bloomberg News. This week’s quote pertains to the deep dive, as I take a look at the rumoured demise of Prime Central London an...
Read More →"The decline in output has been caused by multiple factors that go beyond planning policy” - The Home Builders Federation. This week’s quote pertains to the deep dive, as it often does, and I g...
Read More →"The Bank of England's decisions having such large fiscal implications at a time where the chancellor wants to be fiscally tight is clearly not helpful. Furthermore, the losses the central bank makes ...
Read More →“Many leaders are tempted to lead like a chess master, striving to control every move, when they should be leading like gardeners, creating and maintaining a viable ecosystem in which the organization...
Read More →“I don’t believe in guardrails” - Mary Elizabeth Truss, the “Lady Jane Grey” of Prime Ministers This week’s quote goes straight to the deep dive and tells you just how seriously the former PM l...
Read More →“Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer. This week’s quote goe...
Read More →“Intergenerational justice, intergenerational fairness and equality is going to be the issue of the next 10 or 15 years. Is this generation, my generation, going to do right by the younger generation?...
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