#fiscal-policy
8 posts tagged fiscal-policy.
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Saudi Arabia's spending spree hits the wall
The kingdom's Vision 2030 megaprojects are colliding with fiscal reality as oil revenues fall short, revealing how ambition and autocracy make for poor project management.
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UK borrowing at highest since Covid: fiscal reckoning deferred
April borrowing hit its worst level since the pandemic, exposing the gap between Labour's fiscal ambitions and the structural pressures on public finances.
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SpaceX's IPO and the limits of genius capitalism
The SpaceX IPO filing is a genuine industrial achievement — but the entanglement of Musk's government contracts with his private wealth-building demands scrutiny that fandom tends to foreclose.
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HS2 and the permanent infrastructure lie
The HS2 cost explosion to £103bn reveals a chronic British disease: mega-projects that grow uncontrolled not because of ambition but because accountability was never built in.
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Starmer's King's Speech gamble amid revolt
Keir Starmer's King's Speech attempt to reset his agenda may be too little too late as gilt yields rise, unions turn, and a leadership challenge looms from within.
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UK gilt shock and the price of drift
Bond markets have delivered the verdict Starmer's backbenchers could not: a 28-year high in gilt yields signals that political paralysis is now a sovereign credit event.
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Britain's gilts, and the bill arrives
UK long-term borrowing costs hit a 28-year high — not a market tantrum but the slow tightening of a fiscal noose Westminster has spent two decades refusing to acknowledge.
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Labour's 12-hour mutiny changes everything
Burnham's entry into a by-election seat and Streeting's public leadership declaration have transformed a simmering crisis into a full succession contest Starmer cannot survive.