Simon Jenkins is the most annoying of Guardian columnists. A great deal of what he writes is total nonsense. But, every now and again he
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UK banks will go bust because of climate change
I posted this video on YouTube this morning: The transcript dealing with this pretty big, and vital claim is: UK banks are going to go
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‘Sadmin’
It is a Bank Holiday in England today. I don’t always respect them. The habits of 40 years of self-employment encourage such indifference. But today
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Life does not get much better than this
A near-perfect spring weekend. Thyme in my back garden. Early morning residues of rain on ivy, also in the back garden: Then to birding at
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Does MMT say we can spend without limit?
I posted this video on YouTube this morning: The transcript is: People keep saying to me that modern monetary theory says that governments can create
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Where now for politics that matters?
‘Ben’ Couchen succeeded for the Tories, but with the aid of unrepeatable bungs from central government. ‘Andy’ Street failed, if only just, in the West
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Starmer is setting out to be a man who does not rise to the challenges
Keir Starmer has an article in The Observer this morning which is headlined: It’s time to end the UK’s divisions: Labour is for everyone Except
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Economists are neither thinkers or problem solvers. Most are just mathematicians, and not very good ones at that
I posted this video on YouTube this morning: This is the transcript: I’ve been reading a quite interesting book. This is it – The Trading
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Just don’t ask an economist how the government funds itself
This Tweet, on which I commented yesterday, is doing the rounds right now in connection with Stephanie Kelton’s new book. The level of very basic
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