This blog enjoyed record traffic last year ( as has, in fact, been the case every previous year):
My thanks to all who spent time reading it.
And let's hope for 2016.
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Thank you for your knowledgeable blogs. Let’s hope they / you continue to grow in influence.
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I’m happy to confess to being a daily visitor. Looking forward to reading The Joy of Tax which was an unusual Xmas present. Best wishes for the New Year.
I hope you enjoy it
Yes Richard, a Happy New Year to you. I hope as you do, and many of the people who comment on your blog, wish for a better and just society for 2016. We just have to keep working at it.
I discovered your blog in 2015 and as someone who knows very little about economics. like most people! I find the blog really interesting, thanks
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Happy New Year Richard. As a non-economist I find your writing shines a light for me on an important but often murky area. Keep up the good work.
I will
Unless something very odd happens
This blog is the first thing I read every day I crank up my computer; it’s never been anything other that informational, educational and, when you’re fighting off the trolls, entertaining. But most of all it’s opened my eyes, eyes that never saw what my generation allowed to happen over the last thirty years, “just in time”.
I thank you, for myself and my children, for keeping up the good fight and wish you continuing success in 2016 and well beyond.
Many thanks Nick
Appreciated
Interesting what you say Nick- for me, growing economic awareness coincided with the ‘mid-life crisis phase’, though now I can see it was under the surface for some years. But I’m keenly aware and pained as you are by the way ‘my’ generation swallowed the neo-liberal stuff – good to be part of that change NOW though, that’s the main thing!
I’m looking forward to another year of this blog, for sure-one of the blogs I read daily amongst a few trusted one’s.
As a Quaker who doesn’t really do ‘times and seasons’ I went to bed before midnight last night and avoided watching money go up in smoke in the form of fireworks. Curmudgeonly perhaps but I think I get a kick out of being contrarian!
Seriously though: In Bill Mitchell’s blog today he notes the new President of Tanazania:
“e has begun to attack corruption and public waste. He has abandoned the extravagant Independence Day celebrations and deferred funding into street cleaning and sanitation to reduce the likelihood of cholera.
He reduced most of the planned outlays on a state dinner associated with the opening of Parliament and averted the funds into the purchase of more beds and mattresses and bedding for the public hospital system.”
perhaps my local, and super-wealthy MP could follow this example and walk the austerity talk and stop claiming for sandwiches and bar snacks at the house of Commons – I won’t hold my breath for 2016.
Good example though
I was also in bed pre-midnight but the film of the fireworks on the Thames just suggested a massive waste of money to me
Having become so angry this year with seeing people’s lives destroyed by austerity (in my case comprising of innocent fellow LA officers and the equally innocent people they are meant to be working with or for) I have often fallen into deep despair over what has been happening since 2010.
This blog is hard to keep away from since it also puts forward new ideas as well as critiquing what is going on. It’s a good place to top up your ‘social justice points’ (literally).
I am still looking for an outlet for whatever I can do to feel and actually be more useful. At least I can join with other voices in some form of outrage and alternative vision for our future.
Just keep taking part
Best start writing to every paper etc you can, all the time
Thank you so much for your blog, which is not only an indispensable source of reliable information and excellent arguments but also an indispensable source of hope. The obstacles to a better world often seem insuperable, but a daily dose of Richard Murphy works wonders!
Thanks Norman
Thankyou Richard for your ever insightful blog posts. I look forward to reading them and share often. Happy new year. Xxx
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Happy New Year and all good wishes to your readers and posters. This blog is always informative and sparky without any malice.
And yes, you do give hope. Whatever happens in the future to our country, fair or foul, I suspect you will always be there to shine a light.
I can assure you, I don’t always feel hopeful
But I always turn anger into something positive
I can’t see any ogther use for it