This data was published today by the government. It shows the demand for so-called ‘bounce back loans’ that have been made available to help businesses
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The case for MMT: or why the FT is wrong to publish ill-informed arguments against it
Stephen King, who is HSBC’s Senior Economic Adviser and author of ‘Grave New World’ has an article in the FT today under the title ‘The
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There’s room for at least another £500 billion of quantitative easing funding right now – and the Bank of England is expecting to use it
Dave Ramsden is Deputy Governor for Markets & Banking at the Bank of England. Yesterday he gave a speech with the title The Monetary Policy
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Coronavirus has made very clear why we need electoral reform in the UK
The idea that the economic downturn that we are nw facing might be prolonged and ghastly is, I think, slowly beginning to permeate the collective
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Now the government declares war on London
The FT has reported that: Ministers have threatened to take direct control of Transport for London unless mayor Sadiq Khan accepts a package of measures
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The UK government said it could not legislate for Jersey to stop tax abuse and corruption, but apparently it can when it comes to fishing
The UK government always said it could not legislate for Jersey. And so it said it would not intervene to stop tax abuse and corruption.
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The UK’s national debt has gone down this year, whatever the ONS likes to claim
The ONS has announced another pile of economic news this morning, all of which is framed in a way intended to misrepresent what is actually
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What MMT says: a chance for the critics to take a pop
One of the regular stream of commentators who claim that MMT is wrong about everything it says has appeared on the blog. So, I issue
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Could maths help solve the problem with coronavirus testing?
I have no idea if the idea in this video is really deliverable, or not, although Rwanda is apparently using it, as has China. But
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