ITN published this picture yesterday: Every now and again someone reports something correctly: this one is true. For the record, Channel TV asked me to
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Recession? Likely, or just on the probable end of plausibility?
Fron Martin Wolf in the FT this morning: Is a global economic recession likely? If so, what might trigger it? Willem Buiter, Citi’s chief economist
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Nailing the critics of People’s QE
There are rare moments in life when you read something that approaches what you think genius. Scott Fullwiler provided one on the Naked Capitalism website
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The reality of Central Bank Independence
I have been accused of many things in my time, many of them untrue. Of late it has been suggested that I have posed a
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It’s bankers who would benefit from an increase in bank rate
This comes from the FT this morning: Received wisdom in the banking sector is that higher rates are great news. US banks, with their heavy
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Jeremy Corbyn and the economics of the real world
I have a blog under the above title on The Conversation website this morning. The piece was written last week, although minorly updated last night,
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Germany wants an EU wide financial transaction tax
The FT has reported this morning that: German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble will push for a planned European tax on stock and bond trading to
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Paul Krugman gets People’s Quantitative Easing
When, back in 2010, I first wrote my idea about using quantitative easing as a fiscal policy – which is now known as People’s Quantitative Easing
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