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Economists still don't know what causes inflation? Is it, today, a nice problem to have? Can Johnson keep his electoral coalition intact?
Category: Business
Duration: 00:39:17
Publish Date: 2021-10-28 12:38:22
Description: Leading economist Duncan Weldon once again joins The Other Hand to discuss the issues of the day.

In his own recent substack post Duncan noted that an ex-Chief Economist of the Bank of England recently stated that ‘economists have no general theory of inflation’. When you think about it, that’s quite a statement.

The UK budget revealed another shape-shift for the Tory party. A Chancellor who believes borrowing is ‘immoral’ nevertheless wants to spend a lot of borrowed money. And is raising taxes.

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