Jolyon Maugham has posted an important blog this morning. It features a recording made by an old friend of this blog, Richard Allen, who is
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Gove: the only expert with an opinion that matters
I was amused by this in the Telegraph this morning: Michael Gove has warned Theresa May that Britain risks becoming an outdated “VHS economy” if
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What if we hadn’t created new money since 1945?
Adam Sawyer offered a number of powerful comments on MMT on this blog yesterday, one of which included this para, which I thought worth sharing.
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The challenge is to be ready for the next crash in theory and in practice
As the FT reports: The International Monetary Fund has hailed the “broadest synchronised global growth upsurge since 2010” as the global elite arrived at the
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We’re not heading a for a new normal
The IMF has just published a new blog by Maurice Obstfeld, who is the Economic Counsellor and Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund. He
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The Great Fragility
Might I recommend today’s column from my old friend and fellow Green New Deal member Larry Elliott in today’s Guardian? As Larry argues: A synchronised
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The era of neoliberal capitalism is already a dead parrot
Ian McWhirter, the political editor of the Scottish Herald, which is not a left wing paper, wrote an excellent attack on neoliberalism in that paper
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Coffee shops are still tainted by tax
Populus has published a report on public perceptions of UK fast food outlets from McDonalds, to Greggs to Starbucks via Costa and Pret a Manger.
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The Centre for Policy Studies has get every part of its scare story on the cost of nationalisation wrong
The Telegraph made much noise yesterday about a claim from hard right think tank, The Centre for Policy Studies, that what they say are Labour’s
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