As is, I think, known by most readers if this blog, Larry Elliott, who has been the economics editor of The Guardian for decades, has
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What really matters?
Mark Cooney, who films and edits my YouTube videos, suggested we make a special for bank holiday Monday. As I am spending the day marking
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Real life Tories want tax increases
In the light of this morning’s debate on tax increases I will quote this thread from my friend and Tax Justice UK colleague Robert Palmer
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The message from Downing Street this morning is ‘bring back austerity’
I have already discussed the Treasury’s callous proposal to increase taxes on the wealthy without compensating tax cuts for those on lower incomes that features
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The big issue for the Sunday papers should not be that we might have some very small tax increases. The big issue is that these tax increases might increase unemployment even more. And the scandal is that this is not being said.
Tax is dominating the front pages of the Sunday Times and Sunday Telegraph this morning. As the latter says: Treasury officials are pushing for the largest
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Labour isn’t just failing Scotland with its denial on the likelihood of Scottish independence: it’s failing the rest of the UK as well
I am an instinctive nationalist. I strongly suspect that my Irish roots have much to do with this. I have known where my instincts on
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Steve Keen’s lightbulb moment on modern monetary theory
I cannot recommend this podcast episode enough: Debunking Economics was, and is still, the classic book by Steve Keen, which I consider essential reading for
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Who subsidises who? Is London really the one doing the subsidising, or the one being subsidised by the rest of the UK?
Further to my blog yesterday on whether London subsidises Scotland or, as I think likely, the flow is actually in the other direction, my University
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Why is GERS CRAp?
I was recording a pile of videos yesterday and it just seemed the right time to record a Saturday special on my theme of the
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