News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Britain needs to bring in negative interest rates via digital currency, raise taxes and increase inflation, according to Jeremy Hunt's economic adviser. Why have the Tories turned their backs on prosperity?
We're having a "national conversation about the future of money", according to the Bank of England. But it's clear this "conversation" has only one permitted outcome, says Dr David McGrogan: the digital pound.
A jaw-dropping £3.4 billion in contracts from Treasury-linked organisations has been received by Fujitsu since 2019, despite its known involvement in the Horizon scandal.
Net Zero policies are pushing up inflation and hitting economic growth, a top Bank of England policymaker has warned – though she does not see that as a reason to oppose them.
Fears that Rishi Sunak's recent watering down of green targets will economically harm the U.K. are unfounded, says Ross Clark. If anything, it will do the opposite.
The Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has admitted for the first time that the massive money printing in the pandemic – more than in the whole previous decade – is behind the current sky-high inflation.
According to the Daily Sceptic's IT Reporter, we shouldn't worry about CBDCs. We're years away from having the tech to roll them out and existing payment systems won't enable the state to monitor our purchases.
Central bankers around the world claimed the Net Zero transition away from fossil fuels would lower inflation, but new analysis from top financial services firm Nomura has found it is in fact driving it.
Will the collapse of First Republic Bank mean the death of ESG? Isn't it about time the people running banks focused on saving their own businesses, rather than saving the planet?
Liz Truss‘s contention that she is only partly to blame for the market turmoil that followed her mini-Budget, with the Bank of England also being culpable, is gathering support – from Robert Peston, among others.
© Skeptics Ltd.