Thames Water has threatened to raise executives’ base salaries if the UK government presses ahead with plans to restrict bonuses for water bosses www.ft.com/content/7b67...

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Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy is an excellent and salutary tale of corporate irresponsibility. The FT rightly gave it four stars.

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A late arrival, as usual, and a refugee from the other planet. I nearly failed the 'are you human?' test, and I'm not always as grumpy as that picture indicates.

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My Sunday Times piece looks at the merits of using GDP per head rather than GDP as the main measure of economic growth. There’s also a quiz and some jokes: When the population is soaring, what happens to economic growth? www.thetimes.com/article/bf0b...

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Yes, you're right, 'squeezing' is the wrong verb. There's no evidence or theory that suggests immigration 'squeezes' per capita income. But I don't think @dsmitheconomics.bsky.social implies that in the text, so perhaps an editor inserted it

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