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

18 hours ago

Sir James Dyson has accused Labour of being spiteful because it has taken way the inheritance tax reliefs worth a small fortune that he had hoped to enjoy by buying large acreages of farmland in the East of England. He’s completely wrong about that. But Labour is spiteful, nonetheless. He just identified the wrong target for their spite.

2 days ago

The Bank of England knows that all money is created by lending. It has published papers that confirm that fact. They must as a result also know that government spending has to take place before any tax can be paid. But they never say that. They take part in a conspiracy of silence on that issue to deny the public the truth. Why is that?

3 days ago

We already have a massive problem with data overload in our society, with most people having little training in how to use the information they are given. AI creates new risks. It also requires that we understand that human decision making remains key to the process of generating human well-being.

4 days ago

Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro are claimed to be wonder drugs that will solve the problems of modern living, like obesity, diabetes and dementia. But there are better ways to do that, like going for a walk and stopping eating ultra-processed food. So are they really just mechanisms to perpetuate the profits of Big Pharma, at cost to us all?

6 days ago

The IMF says it is worried about the world having a low growth, high debt future when in reality we need low growth to manage climate change and high levels of government money creation to fund the services that will be the basis of future prosperity. They’ve got their whole logic wrong.

7 days ago

Nothing about Rachel Reeves’ budget stacks - and the backlash to some of it is going to be fierce, exist from the rich who got away almost untouched by her changes. If she could get things wrong it seemed she set out to do so. 

Wednesday Oct 30, 2024

If Labour knew what it was for today’s Budget could be the momentous event Rachel Reeves claims it is going to be. But she has no story to tell, and Keir Starmer stole half her lines in a speech earlier this week. All she’s got left is half a plot with a lot of bad news in it.

Tuesday Oct 29, 2024

Labour keeps talking about working people and says everyone knows what they mean when they use the term. Except, most people don’t, and the term makes no political sense in the way that they use it. It’s another fine mess they’ve got themselves into, and it’s all their own fault.

Trump scares me rigid

Monday Oct 28, 2024

Monday Oct 28, 2024

Trump is a fascist. Of course that scares me. But it scares me even more because I don’t think that Labour will do anything to stop the threat of fascism growing in the UK.

Trump scares me rigid

Monday Oct 28, 2024

Monday Oct 28, 2024

Trump is a fascist. Of course that scares me. But it scares me even more because I don’t think that Labour will do anything to stop the threat of fascism growing in the UK.

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