The FT is annoying me, again, this morning with an article by someone called Neil Hudson that opens with this: There is a line about
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A reader here has written in response to recent posts on how government spending works: “Thanks, Richard, for the patient and insightful explanation. In my
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Apple has crossed a $4 trillion valuation. That’s $495 for every single person on Earth — if we all shared it. But we don’t. This
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Rachel Reeves has published her pre-budget pitch in The Guardian this morning. In it, she claims that the economy has “strong foundations”, that interest rate
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I found it quite staggering that the FT could report this today: Barclays has agreed to buy US personal loan business Best Egg for $800mn
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Martin Wolf has (once again) declared in the Financial Times that the fate of democracy rests on economic growth. As he said, in advance of
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I have added this entry to this blog’s glossary, it being a myth within neoclassical economics. Perfect Information A pillar of neoclassical thought is the
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On Saturday, I spoke at the Scottish Currency Group conference in Dunfermline via weblink. I was asked to talk about money, but slightly to my
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The UK is stuck in a self-inflicted fiscal trap. Larry Elliott, former Guardian Economics Editor and my co-author in the Green New Deal, joins me
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