Some campaigns take a life time. Others yield quick results. I mentioned yesterday that I was one of the initial signatories to a letter demanding
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Making the peers work is part of taking back control
The FT reports this morning that Theresa May is planning to appoint twelve new peers to increase her chances of getting Brexit legislation through the
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Open letter re KPMG and the Grenfell Tower inquiry
I have co-signed the following letter, which has been reported by the Guardian: We the undersigned, call upon the Cabinet Office and Prime Minister Theresa
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Just suppose Jesus was obsessed with debt, and not sex. What would Christianity have to say in that case?
Michael Hudson is an economist for whom I have always had a lot of time, for a great many reasons. He has a new book
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MMT is economics for the twenty first century where all money is just a government promise, backed by tax
I think I have shared this before, but I will again: When will politicians learn what Stephanie Kelton points out? Modern monetary theory is simply
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Brexit will deliver a credit crash
In November I wrote a blog with the headline: Brexit will deliver a liquidity crisis that will make 2008 look like a half-hearted warm-up act
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German takes on Amazon cheats: why won’t HM Revenue & Customs?
The SuedDeutsche Zeitung has reported (via Google translate): The tax office in Neukölln has confiscated the stocks and balances of Chinese traders on Amazon.de and
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London, 6 March
30% of families in the USA have no net wealth
As the FT notes this morning, Deutsche Bank have put out a big, long, 80-page note on “US Income and Wealth Inequality”. The FT borrows
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