As a house cat, I've grown accustomed to being spoiled.

But since my humans subscribe to the Guardian newspaper, they spend too much time reading.

Nowadays they get the newspapers delivered, so they cover the bed with supplements and

um, cast out.

I used to be worshipped.

Now all they worshipped is having up to 50% off their newspaper subscription to the Guardian

and Observer.

Search Guardian newspaper subscriptions to learn more.

Offer ends 21st of May 2023, open to UK and Overline and Residence, age 18 plus for

full subscription terms and conditions visit the Guardian.com slash subscription slash terms.

Limited reprecations and other times pretty gigantic ones.

The man to tell us all about it is Charles Reed, he's been on this podcast before.

He came up to a previous book in which he talks about how government policies can cause

a borrowing crisis.

That was well timed because the British government caused borrowing crisis in the autumn

of the fall of last year.

In the first half of March 2023, Charles published a new book.

This was a book about how rapid interest rate rises, caused financial crises and banking

collapses over the last 200 years in Britain.

The following day, Silicon Valley Bank collapsed thanks in large part to the Fed's rapid

tightening of interest rates.

So I begged Charles to write his next book about something happy and positive and constructive.

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