Jos Gallacher 🟰
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Jos Gallacher 🟰
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Scot, European citizen, economic policy aficionado, green tinged democratic socialist, social democrat, book lover, coffee addict and pedant. In that order.
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Congratulations to Lucy Powell for winning the Deputy Leadership contest. We look forward to working with you.

If you haven’t already, read Lucy’s vision for the role, which she set out for Fabian members ahead of our hustings. ⬇️

fabians.org.uk/connected-wi...
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Congratulations to Co-operative MP Lucy Powell on her election as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.
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I love the old fashioned search engines. This one offered me low priced Neoplatonism.
Also featured a new tympani concerto by Matthew Rooke with Paul Philbert as soloist.
Fantastic
Taking time off from attempting satire for a bit of Beethoven.
Great example of why this is a bad idea.
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Tired of your old ethics, get new low cost ethics from the Amazon bookshop:
In reality it is small businesses that fund investment from retained earnings. If they need to keep more working capital they will invest less. Corporations have other sources of finance for investment. For them working capital is not the issue.
Put off paying your bills for the sake of the economy.
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“Lots of people in Congress do criminal stuff.”
Not just abstract philosophical concepts. Here’s one for mathematicians. Amazon has a wide range of metric spaces for sale.
#mathematics
Tired of your old ethics, get new low cost ethics from the Amazon bookshop:
So I wondered if there were any other philosophical schools going cheap:
I love the old fashioned search engines. This one offered me low priced Neoplatonism.
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It’s a bubble.
We know it’s a bubble.
But we keep inflating it.
We are not concerned.
When it pops, government will bail us out.
Like last time.
The same governments now worried about selling their bonds will borrow more to save us.
#EconSky
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on.ft.com/4oR5r3l Bubble-talk is breaking out everywhere
Bubble-talk is breaking out everywhere
But more optimistic investors continue to bank on the cavalry arriving if things get really dicey
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I think she should go further and introduce a higher band of employers/partners NI on remuneration above £500,000.
Think of it as a sin tax on businesses paying excessive salaries.
on.ft.com/4nhjFt2 Rachel Reeves targets tax partnerships in crackdown on wealthy Britons
Rachel Reeves targets tax partnerships in crackdown on wealthy Britons
UK chancellor fleshes out Budget plan to target professionals with ‘broadest shoulders’ including lawyers, doctors and accountants
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It’s a bubble.
We know it’s a bubble.
But we keep inflating it.
We are not concerned.
When it pops, government will bail us out.
Like last time.
The same governments now worried about selling their bonds will borrow more to save us.
#EconSky
👇
on.ft.com/4oR5r3l Bubble-talk is breaking out everywhere
Bubble-talk is breaking out everywhere
But more optimistic investors continue to bank on the cavalry arriving if things get really dicey
on.ft.com
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The bigger point is that the only sustainable way for a country to increase its consumption is not by reducing the price of its imports but rather by increasing the value of its domestic production.
www.ft.com/content/8911...
Do consumers benefit from cheaper imports?
Domestic production should be prioritised over cheap consumer imports
www.ft.com
Why do we assume that someone who has been lucky in the past will be lucky in the future?
"Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness."
They’re not anti immigration, they’re anti immigrant.