According to a report in the Financial Times this morning: Global banking executives have warned that they will divert investment away from the UK if
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Glossary entry: Monopoly
I was writing a ‘View On’ article on markets yesterday morning and discovered there was no glossary entry for monopoly, although there was for oligopoly.
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Who will constrain the power of capital?
In a video Paul Krugman published on his Substack yesterday, which I recommend subscribing to, although I by no means agree with everything he says,
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Mad, bad, or beneath contempt?
Donald Trump was at the UN yesterday. Amongst the many stupid things he had to say, including that this planet was cooling, he also claimed
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The politics of blame
British politics is increasingly becoming a politics of blame. Instead of addressing difficult social problems, politicians are finding people to punish. Small boats are one
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The National: £20 for a year
In August, I mentioned that The National, for whom I write a regular column, had a sale on. Some people missed it, and now it
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Infographic: The arguments against MMT
I am often asked to post the infographics separately, so I will: And: How to expand this image Press CTRL or Command and the Plus
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“If AI succeeds it may kill all of our jobs. If it fails, the whole economy falls apart”
Every morning starts, for me, with a review of the many overnight emails that I receive, most of them from news organisations. There was a
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What critics get wrong about MMT
Modern monetary theory, or MMT, is frequently attacked for supposedly saying that governments can print unlimited amounts of money, ignore inflation, abandon taxation, accumulate endless
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