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@julianHjessop "Important point (and a compelling argument against Reform's proposal for a 'Bitcoin Reserve Fund'). 👇"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-12T09:32Z 34.4K followers, 12K engagements

"@CJCHowarth @arthistorynews Very helpful thanks though my main takeaway is that we don't need to rejoin the EU to fix this problem"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-15T09:00Z 34.5K followers, XX engagements

"Reform continues to backpedal on economic policy - and Kemi Badenoch's reboot has surely played a big part here too. 🙂"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-13T10:45Z 34.5K followers, 21.6K engagements

"Dan is of course right that the biggest winners from the abolition of stamp duty would be owners of the most expensive homes but also right that this doesn't mean we shouldn't do it. As he says SDLT hammers property transactions from the top down - bad for everyone. (1/2)"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-10T09:42Z 34.4K followers, 41.6K engagements

"Hard to find any positives for the UK in the latest IMF report but here's one. The IMF estimates that the average US effective tariff rate on the UK is now XXX% which is at least much lower than the EU's 16.3%"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-14T15:58Z 34.4K followers, 21.8K engagements

"1.7k likes. 🙄 More worryingly this tweet chimes with YouGov polling suggesting that a 'wealth tax' would still be popular even if it lost money (meaning the not-super-rich would have to pay more tax or public services would have to be cut)"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-09T16:20Z 34.4K followers, 8659 engagements

""Reeves urged to levy one-off wealth tax in budget." 🤔 Odd take on the IFS report At most @TheIFS suggests that a 'one-off' levy might be less damaging than a recurring annual charge but it clearly comes out against any form of new wealth tax"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-13T05:01Z 34.5K followers, 58K engagements

"Two lowlights from the latest IMF forecasts. 🙄 X UK per capita GDP growth expected to remain among the lowest in the G7 in 2025 (0.4%) and drop to rock bottom in 2026 (0.5%) X UK inflation expected to remain the highest in the G7 in both years (averaging XXX% and 2.5%)"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-14T15:47Z 34.4K followers, 37.3K engagements

"📢 The Resolution Foundation has echoed the point made by @Frencheconomics: recent productivity growth may have been stronger than thought but will this be enough to prevent a big downgrade in the OBR forecasts Could prevent 10-20bn of tax hikes"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-15T07:57Z 34.5K followers, 3221 engagements

"By popular demand here's a chart of the IMF's forecasts for GDP growth per capita in 2025 and 2026 which is a better measure of changes in living standards than the headline numbers. 🤔 (I've simply ranked them by cumulative growth over the two years) (ps. it's still a mystery to me why anyone thinks the solution to the UK's problems is to copy the other underperformers notably France and Germany or even to tie us more closely to them again)"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-14T18:00Z 34.4K followers, 36.3K engagements

""The Responsible Society - a Thatcherite agenda for the 21st Century" Great read from Robert Colvile. 👇 TL;DR - "If the problem is you're borrowing too much that arises because you're spending too much. If you're spending too much you must reduce your spending." (Mrs T.)"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-15T13:47Z 34.4K followers, 3123 engagements

"Ps. you can read the full @TheIFS report here. 👇 (IMHO it's all sensible stuff going back to first principles. 🤓)"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-13T05:01Z 34.4K followers, 3546 engagements

"I'm still baffled why anyone looking at this chart might think we need to realign more closely with the EU. 🤷♂"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-15T09:12Z 34.4K followers, 10.6K engagements

"Excellent summary of the case against stamp duty (SDLT) taken from today's IFS report on Reeves' tax options. 👍🤓"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-13T05:15Z 34.4K followers, 12.9K engagements

"FYI here are a few thoughts on the decision to hold the Budget on XX November which is relatively late but does make some sense. 🤔 Link here"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-09-03T17:00Z 34.4K followers, 5782 engagements

"Ps for those replying (quite reasonably) "but bitcoin is still up x% since Y." the main purpose of reserve assets is to diversify risk not maximise (potential) returns. Plus of course "past performance." 😉"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-12T09:57Z 34.4K followers, 2200 engagements

"@John_Stepek Possibly a small factor but I wouldn't put much faith in the LFS Latest WFJ also suggests any bounce in self-employment is now going into reverse"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-14T08:19Z 34.5K followers, XXX engagements

"@SamAndreetti Nope. You're assuming that the current housing stock is sufficient which it isn't. Private landlords increase supply by financing new builds converting properties into multiple occupancy and renting out second homes that would otherwise be empty. Banning them would backfire"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-06T11:53Z 34.4K followers, 3727 engagements

""UK set to exempt newly-listed company shares from stamp duty" This is good news - Budget set to include a two-three year stamp duty holiday for new listings 👍 (better to scrap stamp duty altogether of course but this is better than nothing)"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-02T07:58Z 34.4K followers, 15.4K engagements

"Chart of the Day. 🤔 It's very unusual for payrolled employment not to rise - outside of pandemics. But Labour has managed it"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-14T06:17Z 34.5K followers, 44.5K engagements

"This is bollocks. 🙄 Most of the 'green' jobs being 'created' simply divert workers from other jobs that are 'not green' with no net gain. Worse still the mad rush to 'net zero' means UK energy is more expensive and less secure costing jobs in the rest of the economy"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-09-30T18:20Z 34.4K followers, 27.4K engagements

"@TimfromSing @AndrewWilliaaf Yep - and broadly in line with the ONS assumptions too 👇 But obviously if the gov't gets net immigration down headline GDP growth would be lower. (Hence another reason why looking at per capita GDP is also important.)"
X Link @julianHjessop 2025-10-14T20:27Z 34.5K followers, XX engagements