I did a podcast / discussion with Unlearning Economics last week. This is what I had to say. My first answer on how we got
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Scotonomics on the Sturgeon rehash of the Growth Commission Plan from 2018
I took part in a discussion on the Scottish government’s new economic paper last night. It was a good discussion: For some reason I just
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How can we get so much, so wrong, to benefit so few?
I have been thinking out loud on Twitter this morning, which may not be the right place to do that as it is so easily
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The SNP fails again on the question of the currency after independence
I have just posted this thread on SNP plans for the Scottish economy after independence, which offer me few sources of joy: Amongst today’s Westminster
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The Bank of England’s interest rate policy is the biggest threat to the people of the UK now
I am posting this thread on Twitter this morning: We all know Truss has made a mess of her premiership, and will leave the UK
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Hunt’s first and last gasp as Chancellor?
The Treaury put out this announcement at about 6.30 this morning: My immediate reaction was: On reflection I added: Nothing has changed my opinion that
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We can do so much better than thus
I posted this on Twitter this morning, in response to the usual supposedly left-of-centre anti-MMT crowd who think it their job to point out that
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Labour needs a crash course in complex systems thinking to underpin a robust plan for system transformation or it will fail as catastrophically as this one
This is the third thread by other people I want to share here this morning. This one is by Dr Nafeez Ahmed, who is absolutely
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Now is the time for more QE: it’s the way to keep the economy going
Saturday was a good thread-writing day on Twitter. Here is another excellent one, from Andrew Levi, who is well worth following if you are on
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