John Healey holds the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer at this moment, to everyone’s surprise, including, I suspect, his own. He was interviewed by
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Rent is not just the money you pay a landlord. In economics, it means something far bigger and far more significant. Economic rent is any
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The strongest opposition that I received on LinkedIn, and elsewhere, to my suggestion that we need not worry about the UK’s national debt as it
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If we want to understand government finances, the last people we should ask are usually businesspeople and the City of London. That might sound surprising.
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The naysayers about my Taxing Wealth Report have always said that some of my suggestions, such as equalising the tax rates on income and capital
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Nationalisation has become the word British politicians dare not say, and the reason they give is always the same: it is unaffordable. They claim that
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I have already noted one response to my video about £3 trillion of national debt, posted yesterday. That was on YouTube polls, where 4,900 people
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I posted polls posing the question in the title of this post, both on this blog and on YouTube, yesterday. I provided the right answer
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A comment was posted on this blog this morning, which hinted that it did not believe Andy Burnham’s suggestion that “Manchesterism is the end of
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