2020 April 07

Is the Swedish coronavirus model working? It seems not…

Posted on April 7 2020

Notoriously, Sweden has not followed the lockdown model that other countries have adopted to address the coronavirus crisis. The result is a markedly different economic
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We need direct monetary funding of government spending

Posted on April 7 2020

Peter May has posted this on Progressive Pulse this morning and I’m sharing it here. Like Peter, I have long been very critical of Positive
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The FT says its time for the Bank of England to start direct funding of the government: modern monetary theory has won the day

Posted on April 7 2020

The FT is continuing to face reality as it considers what to do in the face of the coronavirus crisis. It has an editorial today
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Businesses are almost out of money and the government’s schemes are not working. The UK economy is about to disappear and nothing is really being done to save it.

Posted on April 7 2020

I was talking to an MP yesterday about the government’s business support schemes for business, and was comparing them with the German scheme I reviewed
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We need an interim prime minister, and only Jeremy Hunt fits the bill

Posted on April 7 2020

I wrote a tweet last night in which I said: Let’s be serious tonight. There is no one who does not wish Boris Johnson well
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