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Roger Bootle is one of the City of London’s best-known economists, and is the Chairman of Capital Economics.
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Burnham will soon learn an important lesson about bond markets

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By Roger Bootle
| Yahoo Finance Verified
It is almost certain that the new government will want to spend more money - Dan Kitwood/Getty It's becoming increasingly clear that Andy Burnham, likely to be our prime minister very soon, would like to spend a fair bit more public money. But the key questions are how an increase in expenditure would be financed, and how the markets would react. In 2009, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, the American economists, produced a magisterial work on the implications of high levels of government debt.
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Labour should look to Germany on welfare reforms

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By Roger Bootle
| Yahoo News UK Verified
The story is familiar: upward pressure on welfare payments amidst a difficult fiscal outlook; the need to fund increased defence expenditure; a weak performance from the real economy. And all of this needing to be addressed by the members of a fragile coalition with sharply different views. This sounds like a description of the situation facing the Labour Government, whether under Andy Burnham or anyone else. But, in fact, I am referring to Germany.
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How Britain can finally make Brexit a success

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By Roger Bootle
| Yahoo Finance Verified
Its impossible to work out the impact of Brexit given everything that has happened in the last decade - Vuk Valcic/Getty This Tuesday marks the 10th anniversary of the Brexit referendum. You should expect both the airwaves and the public prints to be full of assessments and recriminations. Ten years on, how do things look? A mini-industry has developed trying to assess the impact of Brexit on the economy. Suffice it to say that most numerical assessments by economists have been negative.
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