The OECD has issued new forecasts on Covid recovery. The FT featured them in an article, by Martin Wolf yesterday. This is the chart: I
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I am a big fan of the work of a charity specialist named Andrew Purkis. His blog is here. I share his opinion that far
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I have said what follows before on this blog, but some things bear repetition. And given that I am speaking about modern monetary theory (MMT)
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Governments that are within weeks of delivering all that they promised the electorate in their manifesto should not suffer major House of Commons defeats, and
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Many commentators – from Robert Peston onwards – are obsessing that if interest rates rise then the government will be overwhelmed with debt servicing costs.
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This event is tomorrow. It was going to be a discussion but due to illness of other participants, it’s now a Q&A with me on
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There was good news from the SNP elections at the weekend. Both Kairin van Sweeden and Tim Rideout were elected to the SNP policy development
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Labour is sitting out today’s Covid 19 lockdown vote. It would be wise of the SNP to do the same. This is an English vote.
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It’s unlikely that there are 57 varieties of capitalism, although if you looked hard enough there may be that many. What is certain is that financial capitalism,
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