Funding the Future

Richard Murphy and occasional friends talking about everything you need to know to understand the economy, tax, finance and how we fund our future.

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Episodes

17 hours ago

Rachel Reeves says it is her pre-election promise – to balance the books – that Labour must deliver. But 20 other cabinet ministers also made promises – and are being denied the chance to deliver them by Reeves. How long is it before they oust her?

2 days ago

The UK has housing costs 44% higher than equivalent costs in similar countries. That means instead of fueling growth and providing for children, the younger people who pay these costs are fueling growing inequality. Something has got to give.

3 days ago

Reform has proposed a Bill in parliament that would destroy the ability of the UK government to create money. Worse still, it wants us to use gold – which we’d have to import – as the basis for issuing money. A policy of that sort would crash UK economic credibility and our economy.

4 days ago

The UK economy need not be stuck in a rut. It’s Rachel Reeves’ choice that it is. If only she demanded lower interest rates from the Bank of England and let the government spend to transform public services, we could be in a great place. She won’t though, making her the impediment to progress.

5 days ago

Most of any country’s saving is done by its wealthiest people. But because the rich are obsessed with staying rich they save in ways that are unproductive. The result is they drain economies of productive spending and so shrink them. The answer? Tax them more.

6 days ago

In the world we now live in, the crazy is possible and I'm suggesting that we need to prepare for it.

7 days ago

Managing potholes is a core, unglamourous and unthanked task of government. Reform only knows about gesture politics. Until anyone believes Reform can manage potholes they shouldn’t support them.

Friday Jan 10, 2025

The Bank of England is crashing the UK economy. And apparently, our politicians want to do nothing about that. We really are living in an economy that is out of control.

Are we all Trumped?

Thursday Jan 09, 2025

Thursday Jan 09, 2025

Trump is revealing that he has the type of imperialist plans for geographic expansion of the USA that we thought had departed Western thinking long ago, and such desires have never ended well.

Wednesday Jan 08, 2025

Labour has based its strategy on promoting private sector growth without showing any understanding that some of that growth might be harmful to the well-being of the people of the UK, and might even lead to the economy taking a nose-dive.

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