Between writing blog posts, dealing with comments, doing some birdwatching, and fitting in the rest of the day, I did a lot of thinking, dictating,
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The Great Discomfort is coming
The Great Discomfort is coming. A financial crisis could expose just how fragile middle class security has become. For decades, millions of people have been
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Keeping in balance
I worked late last night on my book outline. I was up early this morning. The news was not good. In fact, it is depressing.
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The thuggish approach to human well-being?
Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and special envoy to the Middle East, said this over the weekend: Gaza has not worked for a very, very long
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Spontaneity can be falsely claimed once. The second time it is organised intimidation.
As the FT has reported this morning: On Saturday, people dressed in black and wearing scarves and balaclavas blocked roads near the Port of Dover,
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The price of Germany’s black zero: the neoliberal policy that has driven the rise of its far right
The Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is Germany’s far-right political party, which won a major political victory in the former East German state of Saxony-Anhalt this
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Understanding Economics: What is poverty?
Poverty is not a fact of nature. It is a political choice. The UK considers a person to be living in poverty when their income
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There is no shortage of work in Britain; there is just a shortage of funding to do it.
Jacqueline and I were out yesterday, deliberately looking at the work from different directions. Aside from birdwatching, our main focus was the economics of attention,
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Infographic: Quantitative easing
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