This morning’s unemployment data from the Office for National Statistics is a real curate’s egg. Taken at face value there is no issue of concern:
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What are your economic policy priorities?
If you were to have six asks of the Labour Party to include in their economic policy what would they be? I am keen to
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Tuesday morning thoughts
Forever with blue cheese
Liz Truss was a laughing stock in 2014: And now the FT reports that: Talks between Tokyo and London over a new trade deal have
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What happens if 50% of government backed loans fail, as bankers think likely? The answer is that more than 5 million jobs are at risk for this reason alone
This blog is a day or so late, but I had to spend much of yesterday setting up a new computer because my main old
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Tax in modern monetary theory: an explanation
Historically modern monetary theory placed too little emphasis on the role of tax in the economy. It’s my belief, explained here and here that tax and
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