Comments and Data Protection
Friday, November 6th, 2009Comments policy (from April 2026) A revised comments policy will apply on this blog from April 2026. The change is necessary. Traffic on this site
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Richard Murphy
Tuesday, July 4th, 2006Richard Murphy (68) was a practising chartered accountant for forty years and is now a political economist. He is Emeritus Professor of Accounting at Sheffield
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When will we get a politics of care?
Tuesday, September 15th, 2026Alex Wickham, who is usually a reliable source of economic data and who is based at Bloomberg, has suggested that information he has received indicates
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Glossary entry: Capitalism
Tuesday, September 15th, 2026On Saturday, I wrote a piece entitled What is labour was not a cost? It generated a lot of comments, including one noting that I had
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Interest rates are dangerously wrong
Tuesday, September 15th, 2026Interest rate markets are in turmoil. Government bond yields are rising, inflation fears are growing, and financial markets are demanding higher returns. But there is
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How do you find the time for all this?
Monday, September 14th, 2026A reader of this blog recently asked me a question that I suspect quite a few people have wondered about: How do you find the
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Martin Wolf: a threat to democracy in FT clothing
Monday, September 14th, 2026Martin Wolf has written in the Financial Times today about the difficult choices facing John Healey as he prepares for his October Budget. Wolf argues
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The last people we should ask about government finances
Monday, September 14th, 2026In my opinion, if we want to understand government finances, the last people we should ask are businesspeople and the City of London. That might
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Why is AI so frightened all of a sudden?
Sunday, September 13th, 2026As the New York Times reported last night: The chief executive of Anthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot, called for a global slowdown of
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