Absolutely brilliant from Dillie Keane, one of the members of Fascinating Aida:
Will the great unemployment begin in August?
The Guardian has noted this afternoon that: Businesses will have to pay at least a fifth of the wages of furloughed employees from August, it
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The May 2020 Taxcast
In the Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast, the Taxcast: we cover the story the mainstream media aren’t telling you — how governments around the world are
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Question of the day: myth busters
There has been much discussion here on myths needing busting. Before I spend time working on them (and I have been asked to do so
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Dear Dom
I have said that I do not think Johnson will make it through this parliamentary term. I suspect that this is his email to Cummings
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Thank goodness for the government’s ability to create money
I have just put out the following Twitter thread to address some of the nonsense being said about inflation risk today, and other comments that
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We’ll be just fine so long as no one, anywhere, anytime, thinks that we have to repay the government’s so-called debt. Because in this crisis that is the one thing we will not need.Â
I have just posted these comments as a twitter thread, which is why they are written in the short form that they are in: The
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Thoughts on government debt this morning
The government borrowed £62bn in April. Twitter is hyperventilating. These were my contributions to that platform, so far this morning: There is another thread to
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Negative interest rates: the new economic reality is just fine right now
As the FT has reported this morning: Growing expectations for further rate cuts in the UK sent yields on government bonds below zero on Thursday,
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