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...John WhittakerEconomics Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK...
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...In the 1930s, John Maynard Keynes criticised the “Treasury view” that opposed public investment....
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...John Velis, foreign exchange and macro strategist at BNY Mellon, which is custodian to $45tn of assets, said overseas holdings of sterling have returned to “close to normal” long-term averages having been...
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...Everyone tends to agree in theory with this phrase attributed to John Maynard Keynes....
...Cash had appeal in 2023 due to climbing interest rates, but savings rates have started to fall in anticipation of the BoE making cuts....
...Gordon Brown in 2010, John Major in 1997 and Alec Douglas-Home in 1964 all held on until the last possible minute....
...Sir John Vickers, former BoE chief economist, said any remit should pass a “Crick and Watson test” with fewer than 900 words, the length of the academic paper explaining the structure of DNA....
...The BoE’s financial stability watchdog said that “a worsening macroeconomic outlook could . . . cause sharp revaluations of credit risks,” adding that valuations appeared “stretched . . . particularly in...
...John Halman, chair at Gascoigne Halman estate agents, said the end of the year had ushered in a slight increase in activity compared with previous expectations....
...BoE governor Andrew Bailey said things were “moving in the right direction” and in an interview with the FT today confirmed rate cuts were “in play”....
...Letter in response to this report: The BoE needs its ‘seigniorage’ earnings / From John Whittaker, Economics Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK...
...The BoE’s forecasting team(s) should also compete....
...Nicholas Mendes, mortgage technical manager at John Charcol, said the brokerage had in recent weeks seen a rise in demand for tracker mortgages — loans for which the interest rate can fluctuate....
...Their role is to confer respectability on astrologers, quipped John Kenneth Galbraith. But the Bank of England’s forecasting failures are no joke....
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