Neoliberal Myths
Friday, February 10th, 2023Once the Tax Research Glossary is up and running with sufficient entries to make it useful the next issue that I intend to tackle is
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Why are politicians obsessing about debt?
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024The Office for National Statistics has produced new figures for the national finances for March 2024 this morning. In their release, they say: Borrowing in
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The IMF really needs to work out in whose interests the world economy should be run
Friday, April 19th, 2024The IMF has been sending out some very confused signals from its spring meeting, being held in Brazil this week. If I have read the
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Badenoch’s spinning a totally fabricated yarn about the origins of the UK’s wealth
Friday, April 19th, 2024Kemi Badenoch was reported by the Guardian yesterday to have said: It worries me when I hear people talk about wealth and success in the
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Just wait: politicians will be shaking the magic money tree very soon
Monday, April 15th, 2024The situation in the Middle East looks to be very volatile. Israel’s attack on an Iranian embassy has given rise to an almost inevitable counter
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The national debt is not as big as the government claims
Thursday, April 11th, 2024I just posted this short video on the national debt on TikTok. I think we’ve upped our production values in this one. Comments would be
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Thames Water is bust: our politicians need to deal with it
Sunday, April 7th, 2024This morning, the business media is obsessed with the fact that Thames Water has failed to make a payment due on debt owed by its
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Both the Tories and Labour are pro-market extremists now
Sunday, April 7th, 2024This item was posted on LinkedIn last night by Dr Raj Thamotheram, with whom I have been in occasional contact for quite a long time.
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You can’t say MMT does not work because you think Scotland will be a failed state after independence
Monday, March 25th, 2024This tweet was posted over the weekend: “I’m the Fox Mulder of MMT. I want to believe, but there’s a thing called the current account
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