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Kate Barker

@katemb.bsky.social
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Erstwhile economist, Stoke City supporter. #madeinstoke

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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
While Griffith has a point on house building costs, costs aren’t the same as prices
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Me too on ‘not yet’ - but after all you never know!
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Upward revision in supply following 2021 census
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
1997 after LTCM collapse also very different.
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just think of the cumulative time at HMT and BoE, and numerous others, spent unproductively on the now revised data. It’s not just here, a story I’ve been telling about housing supply in the 2010s has been falsified
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This would be excellent news
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Think that’s right
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Public debt effect agree - but users will pay?
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
They come back. A brief respite. Then they have children
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Agree - Lunar men is a really good book
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Silvana is excellent and very much expresses her own views
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Apple cake, tarte tartin,
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
It’s a great book
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Well I got wet
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I think that definitely means no forward guidance
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Boo Giles
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The Productivity Institute @productivity.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The NHS productivity challenge | @escoeorg.bsky.social Join us on 30 April in London for a panel on why NHS productivity has yet to recover & what reforms are needed for a more sustainable NHS. A fantastic panel, with @teraallas.bsky.social. Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-does-...
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What Does It Take to Improve NHS Productivity?
Join us for a panel discussion that brings together leading experts in health-care productivity, research, analysis and policymaking.
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Phew I thought Tony had gone soft!
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
You don’t think this is where the music stops and it’s not possible for govt to bail consumers out (at least without other consumers paying)
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I was chair of ARU when we first put it up - and it makes me smile too
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Why? Rice isn’t a challenge to cook well?
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The North starts at Stafford
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Simple- little screen cleaners and then cotton wool buds and vey dilute washing up liquid
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Not Jude. Less challenging - Madding Crowd and return of the native (with the annoying Clym Yeobright)
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I had Hardy at O and A level. Not a fan. But Anthony and Cleo at A which I adored, plus Arthur Miller short plays
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
This is spot on. I’m re reading Jane Jacobs on US cities - some of this has dated but not about communities.
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Sympathy. I’m just recovering from leg fracture
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Dan Corry also
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
It’s a really good read - but bad people are bad…did you watch make very good tv adaptation?
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Well at least I wouldn’t feel sick on them
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
I know I’m not a literature expert - but each year read 2 of Booker short list. This year - ‘Flesh’ ( the winner) and ‘the Land in Winter’. Thought the Land in Winter excellent and the other meretricious . What am I missing? (May have been gems in the other4 too).
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
And now I’ve learned to do links - really interested in any thoughts on the proposal re fiscal definitions in this piece: www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/blog/financi...
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Financing infrastructure without unnerving the bond market - Bennett School of Public Policy
The Chancellor’s attempt to increase capital investment in her first budget resulted in a negative reaction from the bond market. As growth slows, the Chancellor needs to fundamentally rethink her app...
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
New towns locations, design proposals and planning recommendations - all published today www.gov.uk/government/p.... Together with a positive government response
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New Towns Taskforce: Report to government
The government has published the independent New Towns Taskforce report as well as its initial response to that report.
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Tedious how this argument keeps on. Household size is unchanged -but we expected a fall with increasing age. The big rise in young adults living with parents, numbers in temp housing and recent rental inflation suggest supply issues. ‘It’s all about supply’ is simplistic- so is the opposite.
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I’m surprised by 2 things - those prepared to pay me significant sums to speak and by contrast those who believe I’m a free good prepared to help them profit from a commercial event
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Supporting?
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Laugh track - The National
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Liverpool is always great to visit- especially Royal Liver Building - but I’m biased
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Agree. And possibly desperate
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Agree about undersaving. But will people look at the dashboards? They probably don’t look at the DC info already sent
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Even my non economist husband spotted that oddity . But he was sorry as for some reason it inspired me to explain why the big sectoral imbalances have to balance.
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The Productivity Institute @productivity.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The AI Productivity Opportunity 💡⚡ Be the Business' Chief Executive Anthony Impey at our interactive workshop on AI and productivity, with Be the Business. TPI's Managing Director @bartvanark.bsky.social is also speaking at the event.
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Me
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...
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Dutch pension fund ABP sells all Alphabet and Meta shares, CEO tells newspaper FD
ABP, the Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in tech companies Meta and Alphabet , its CEO told Dutch newspaper FD in an interview published on Monday.
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The Productivity Institute @productivity.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Technicians play an important role in delivering growth, productivity and innovation, but there is an increasing shortage. Read Professor Dame @athenedonald.bsky.social's new piece for the Productivity Policy Unit to find out more: www.productivity.ac.uk/news/the-rol...
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The role of universities in supporting technical pathways and the delivery of innovation - The Productivity Institute
A commentary on the critical role of technicians in boosting productivity and innovation.
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Good piece. I find myself pining for the 5 drivers
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The world in banking has apparently stayed in the 1980s
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Media and other commentary on todays GDP and yesterday’s CPI combines undue weight on monthly numbers and, very often, a lack of interest in what is actually being measured and the range of uncertainty
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Bennett Institute for Public Policy @bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk · 15/01/2025
📢 Join us for two events featuring our research during National Productivity Week on 31 January. 08:30 - Unlocking Productivity: Insights from C-Suite Leaders 14:30 - Launch of East Anglia Insights Paper 👉 Explore & register www.productivityweek.co.uk/whats-on #NationalProductivityWeek
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What's on - National Productivity Week
Find out the events that are happening around the UK for National Productivity Week.
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Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Terrific result!
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