Published by Michele Maatouk on 29th August 2025
(Sharecast News) - Rachel Reeves should levy a new bank tax and urge the Bank of England to halt bond sales to reduce the government's £22bn-a-year losses from quantitative easing, the IPPR thinktank has argued. In a report called Fixing the Leak, the IPPR's associate director for economic policy, Carsten Jung, says the Treasury should rein in the costs of QE as public finances are tight. - Guardian