It’s conference time for the GMB, and prompted by some members I looked at the state of policy development on low pay and the living wage. The GMB Policy is stated in its policy guide albeit dated 2021. I look at Labour’s “A new deal for working people” and note that the GMB’s minimum wage…
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The Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) was founded by George Osborne as part of his shredding of George Brown’s reputation. He wanted and independence badge to put on the economic forecasts on which fiscal policy was based. He accused Brown of making it up. Anyway now we have the OBR, here are my notes and…
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Twitter has been bought by Elon Musk. What do we do now? Here are some notes …
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I was looking up some stats on the Port of London, the UK’s biggest port beating Grimsby & Hull, but only just. This was to help me write some stuff on the FTCA and London. Here are my links and notes …
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Why do the pension funds have to post collateral on their LDI portfolios?
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There’s a lot of noise on the left about Freeport/Charter Cities. What are they and how dangerous to democracy and workers’ rights are they? Here are my notes.
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Will the 2022 Cost of Living crisis led to mortgage defaults and bank failures? Once more some notes,
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Much of the campaigning in favour of the current wave of strikes poses them as defensive, and quotes the excess in profits being made. I wonder what the stats say, the National Income consists of wages, rents and profits. Here are my notes …
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While Rishi Sunak is busy defending borrowing based deficits in the Tory Leadership election, he gave a lecture earlier in the year, setting out his modern supply theory motivations. This is half bollocks, a quarter some interesting problem definitions, leading to some disappointing solutions. Here are my notes.
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I was looking at some economics of the EU and decided to plot income and unemployment, I was hoping to see how much geography made a difference. Here are my notes …
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I have been thinking about Brexit again over the last few days, I issued my personal short term manifesto, and read the British Chamber of Commerce’s puff in the FT. I comment on the one benefit identified so far, Crown logos on pint glasses. Otherwise, here are some notes,
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What’s the economy look like today, or last march?
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Kevin Brennan MP, introduced a private member’s bill earlier this year to establish the right to ‘equitable’ remuneration for musicians and composers for use of their material on streaming platforms. It would seem that this is an attempt to implement a series of recommendations from the DCMS Select Committee. (I think the bill will fail…
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The Guardian published a piece talking about how the gravity of the EU aquis and its coming regulation on employment rights in the gig economy will impact UK employers. Maybe/maybe not! The article also reminds us of Johnson’s election promises,
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Just come off an IAPP webinar called, “The EU’s Strategy for Data: What the DSA, DMA, DGA mean for privacy”. These stand for Digital Services/Market/Governance Acts. I wonder if this the EU’s equivalence of the UK’s Data: A new direction. Much of the seminar, or the bit I stayed for was does this conflict with…
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