I have been asked in a comment on the blog: How do you reconcile your advocacy of MMT, and opposition to economic austerity, with support
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Trying to run Scotland without its own currency would be like a person trying to be a carpenter without having a saw
I took part in a debate on the need for a Scottish Central Reserve Bank yesterday. This was run as a parallel event to the
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Accounting is at the forefront of the climate change debate now. The trouble is, it does not seem to know it.Â
The Institute of Chartered Accountants has published an article in its People and Planet series under the headline: People and Planet in the Accounts: the
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Could better audits have helped save Arcadia?
This blog began in June 2006. In that same month I wrote about the activities of Sir Philip Green. I had just taken part in
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QE and funding the Green New Deal
The post that follows started, as a number now do, as a Twitter thread. That’s because their reach is much bigger than this blog. Some
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Tomorrow morning, for those interested
This may be of interest to some: Register NOW! SCG Conference: Central Bank, Economy, 'Plan B' & MoreFrom 10.45am on Sunday 29th Nov. Panellists include
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Scotland is leaving the UK whatever Rees-Mogg thinks
The capacity of the current government to shock is astonishing. Yesterday there came this: https://twitter.com/jacob_rees_mogg/status/1332295965471019013?s=21 The message could not have been clearer. A day before
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Providing the answers that are needed
I have been asked by a number of people, from MPs onwards, to prepare answers to the types of questions being commonly asked about the
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No deal was always the aim, as was the chaos it will bring
I have for a very long time believed that the government’s real desire is a no deal Brexit, but they felt unable to say it.
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