On Thursday night Frances Coppola and I walked through Bloomsbury to Kings Cross / St Pancras following an event on modern monetary theory at which
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The Economist reporting misinformation and fairy tales
The Economist has published an article under the title: Too good to be true That’s their description of Corbynomics (although, only after they praise its
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QE was life support for financial markets: PQE is life support for real people
I have argued that quantitative easing was life support for financial markets. As if to make the case there is this stunning chart in the FT
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Britain’s Varoufakis? I don’t think so
The New Statesman’s new edition (not online as yet) has an article suggesting I might be Britain’s Yanis Varoufakis. It has been a weird month
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It’s a bank holiday weekend
It’s a bank holiday weekend The weather is looking good this morning I have a book to finish And an important birthday to celebrate with
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The trouble for the right is they have not realised there is a new and ethical economics of the left
Chris Giles of the FT really does not like Corbynomics. At least he is clear about it. As he says in an article this morning:
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The demise of PFI has been long overdue
As the Guardian reports this morning: Labour should take responsibility for resolving “the mess” left behind by private finance initiative (PFI) deals used to fund
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The Joy of Tax: now out on 1 October
This article was in The Bookseller yesterday: Transworld has brought forward the release date of The Joy of Tax by Richard Murphy — the creator
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Is the European Central Bank planning People’s Quantitative Easing?
The Guardian has reported this: The European Central Bank’s chief economist just dropped a loud hint that it could take fresh action to stimulate Europe’s
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