The Guardian has reported this morning that: The government is “sleepwalking” into a post-Brexit future of insecure, unsafe and increasingly expensive food supplies, and has
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Wealth taxation: a programme to tackle the crisis of inequality that we face
I have noted concerns on growing wealth inequality this morning, here and here. Over the weekend I also published references to the call I made
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The richest in our society aren’t good value for money
As the Guardian notes in an editorial this morning: As research for the Resolution Foundation this weekend shows, the rich are back. While the rest of
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The world does not have a debt problem: it has a wealth inequality problem that must be tackled now
It’s commonplace to say that the world has a debt problem. It doesn’t. It has a savings problem. Let me explain using the data from
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Banks do not need any deposits to make loans
The old chestnut of what came first, the savings or the loan, came up on the blog over the weekend. I have argued for many
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