Steve Keen and I had a conversation yesterday. It will be out as a podcast very soon. What characterised it above all else was the
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Why has the US had to beg for peace with Iran?
The United States did not start peace negotiations with Iran because diplomacy prevailed. It did so because it had no choice. It is running out
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The stock market increases inequality, not wealth
Those who peddle narratives that have little relevance to reality about the benefits of supposed saving in UK stock exchange-based shares and securities are back
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The fat lady has not sung as yet
The media has been providing some, what feels like far from complete, insights into the claims and counterclaims about the Iran peace deal, and the
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Economic questions: the Mariana Mazzucato question
This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been,
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Clinging on to sanity
As I noted in this morning’s video, I woke up yesterday relieved that genocide had not happened overnight. That is not a sentence I was
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Has this war changed global power forever?
Yesterday might mark a turning point in global history, and not because of what happened, but because of what did not. For the first time
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Peace in our time? Why the Middle East deal is already doomed
Markets are celebrating a Middle East peace deal. They shouldn’t be. This is not peace; it is a US strategic retreat, repackaged as diplomacy. And
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Why this may not be peace
We have just published this short video on YouTube and other channels. This is the transcript: There is a supposed Middle East peace plan on
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