I noted yesterday the criticisms that can entirely appropriately be made of those who suggest modern monetary theory (MMT) is dangerous, and even wrong because
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Falsehoods cannot win against this pandemic, but that will not stop this government trying them
One of the characteristics of Boris Johnson’s government is its ability to pretend that events will happen when evidence suggests that to be very unlikely.
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If the critics of modern monetary theory want to be taken seriously they have to get their facts right
I was sent a link to an article by Michael U. Krause, Thomas A. Lubik and Karl Rhodes for the US Richmond Federal Reserve Bank which
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How will you resource it?
Hector RIP
For the last 12 years I have had a near-constant work companion. Whenever he could, Hector spent most of his day somewhere not far behind
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It looks like people in work got the message from the government this week that they’re second rate citizens
YouGov issued a new poll for The Times overnight: The message seems pretty clear. Working people don’t like being asked to subsidise the already well
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How do we get the Scottish Pound?
The Scottish Currency Group, of which I am a member and which is run by Dr Tim Rideout, has issued a new publication entitled ‘How
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It’s time the extractive industries came to terms with stranded assets
New research from Carbon Tracker on stranded assets – those resources that cannot be used by extractive industries companies if the planet is to survive –
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