I spent a lot of time thinking over the weekend. There were moments for leisure, birdwatching, a family meal and film, and for working out
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Blurring boundaries
Tommy Robinson, the British far-right agitator whose proper name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, visited Israel at the invitation of Amichai Chikli, the Israeli Minister for Diaspora
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Government debt is private wealth, so why do people want to get rid of it?
Every pound of so-called “government debt” is a private financial asset. When the government spends, it creates money that becomes your wealth. Yet politicians pretend
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Question Time, and more
It is only three weeks since my elder son, James, joined the Funding the Future team, but my thinking on a great many issues is
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The difficulty of building political economic narratives based on metaphors
I spend a lot of time thinking about metaphors. It may not sound like the work of an economist, but if you want to build
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The Chinese have worked it out: stablecoins are the privatisation of money
The FT reports this morning that: Chinese tech giants have paused plans to issue stablecoins in Hong Kong, after Beijing raised concerns about the rise
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Why do I still do this at 67?
People keep asking why I still make these videos every day at the age of 67. The truth is simple: our economy is still deeply
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Rachel Reeves’ nasty prejudice is coming into play
As the Guardian notes this morning: Rachel Reeves has said she “can’t leave welfare untouched” this parliament, with the Treasury understood to be considering axing
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Quantum(ish) Essay: What if Darwin was wrong? The case for the survival of the wisest
I had hoped to post chapter 4 of the Quantum Biology series this morning. However, for all sorts of good reasons, we have decided to
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