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A day after hitting her longest ever drive in golf, my daughter got to meet Melanie Green at the The R&A Curtis Cup . Ava has been a fan of Melanie since seeing the avocado snood worn while winning the Women’s amateur Portmarnock Golf Club !

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1/5 Today’s Exchequer figures yet again highlight the extraordinary and volatile nature of corporation tax receipts. At the same time these are outperforming, the Government’s spending overruns continue to mount.

Getting through my backlog of emails and post-holiday work backlog with DJ Jagjit S. Chadha bringing me the musical background. 👏🏻

Wonderful seminar visit to Francesca Monti & colleagues in Louvain and the legendary CORE. Really enjoyed all the discussions with faculty and students, comments in the seminar and the conversations over meals. But did they really have to bring me here for lunch? 😁

Our Budget 2025 Irish Fiscal Advisory Council flash release.

Really excited to be going to this event on communication of maths to talk about my work with Matthew Naylor on comms of complex economics.

A loss for the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the wider debates on fiscal policy, but a gain for Oxford - always great to have excellent economists around the university. Looking forward to welcoming the wonderful Paul Johnson next summer.

We will be meeting the Committee on Budgetary Oversight today to discuss the EU's new fiscal rules and the plans the State submitted in relation to these.

Clare Lombardelli’s first speech as Deputy Governor Bank of England delivered at the Bank of England watchers conference. bankofengland.co.uk/speech/2024/no…

My Times piece today, in which I come to the defence of Rachel Reeves and argue that the economy is performing much as expected, despite a difficult budget: Everyone should calm down about both chancellor and economy thetimes.com/article/1c789c…

1/10 The Fiscal Council's latest report looks at the prospects for the Irish economy and public finances. We point to the extraordinary levels of corporation tax being collected. These create huge opportunities but also important risks.

Excited to restart the CB communication webinars by speaking with Loretta Mester, ex-FOMC member and someone who has both studied CB comms and been at the policy frontier of it. It will be Thurs May 1, 15:00 UK time. Register: cepr-org.zoom.us/webinar/regist…