I found it quite staggering that the FT could report this today: Barclays has agreed to buy US personal loan business Best Egg for $800mn
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Growth is not coming back — and nor should our democracy depend upon it
Martin Wolf has (once again) declared in the Financial Times that the fate of democracy rests on economic growth. As he said, in advance of
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Economic myths: perfect information
I have added this entry to this blog’s glossary, it being a myth within neoclassical economics. Perfect Information A pillar of neoclassical thought is the
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A narrative for a Scottish currency
On Saturday, I spoke at the Scottish Currency Group conference in Dunfermline via weblink. I was asked to talk about money, but slightly to my
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Larry Elliott on fiscal failure, technological anxiety and cautious optimism
The UK is stuck in a self-inflicted fiscal trap. Larry Elliott, former Guardian Economics Editor and my co-author in the Green New Deal, joins me
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When will Labour admit we need PR?
This is the latest YouGov polling data chart for the period since the general election in the UK: For the sake of comparison, this is
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Tax, redistribution, the relationship between the two, and why it matters
A new commentator on this blog, called Sammy, asked last night: I often hear a version of the phrase used in the blog, where the
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Racism is now being called out: calling out fascism must be next
The Guardian has suddenly decided that Reform MP Sarah Pochin’s comments about Black and Asian people on television lets them describe what she said as
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Economic questions: the Thomas Piketty question
This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been,
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