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Funding the Future

By: Richard Murphy
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  • 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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  • Pay rises for teachers and the NHS will pay for themselves

    Pay rises for teachers and the NHS will pay for themselves
    Jul 29 2024

    The government will agonise over the cost of paying NHS workers and teachers the above inflation pay rises that have been recommended for them, but doing so is absurd. Once tax is taken in to account a large part of any payment due heads straight back to the government, quite quickly. So why does no politician ever talk about that?
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    9 mins
  • Banks don’t loan out depositor’s money?

    Banks don’t loan out depositor’s money?
    Jul 28 2024

    Most people think banks take in deposits from people and then lend that money to those who want to borrow from them. Nothing could be further from the truth. Banks take deposits and make but they don’t loan out depositors’ funds.
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    7 mins
  • Is Labour really short of money?

    Is Labour really short of money?
    Jul 28 2024

    Labour says it is incredibly short of money. It need not be. I suggest that they just stop paying maybe £30 billion of interest to our commercial banks each year that they have done nothing to earn and then see what they can do with it to change the well-being of people in this country.
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    7 mins
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