I was bemused by a comment made during the course of the debate I took part in last night on modern monetary theory. A person
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The discussion that was organised by the Scottish Currency Group that addressed this issue last Sunday has now been issued as a YouTube video: Those
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Tesco has announced that it will be returning the business rates relief that it was entitled to as a consequence of government support for retailers
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There is concern that bank base rate increases will impact the cost of central bank reserve accounts which have effectively replaced around £800 billion of
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I am a big fan of the work of a charity specialist named Andrew Purkis. His blog is here. I share his opinion that far
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I have said what follows before on this blog, but some things bear repetition. And given that I am speaking about modern monetary theory (MMT)
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Governments that are within weeks of delivering all that they promised the electorate in their manifesto should not suffer major House of Commons defeats, and
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Many commentators – from Robert Peston onwards – are obsessing that if interest rates rise then the government will be overwhelmed with debt servicing costs.
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This event is tomorrow. It was going to be a discussion but due to illness of other participants, it’s now a Q&A with me on
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