Paul Krugman wrote a New York Times piece at the weekend praising the thinking of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. What thinking, precisely? Her support for highest income tax
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The Green New Deal and the demise of the petrodollar
Marco Fante wrote this on the blog overnight. I thought it worth sharing in full. It shows just how radical the Green New Deal really
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Tackling high pay through the tax code – to collect £4.6 billion in tax
I have contributed this piece to a new Class Think Tank publication to mark what is called Fat Cat Day: Tackling high pay through the
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The Green New Deal in the Guardian this morning
Let’s make 2019 the year of a green new deal Richard Murphy and Colin Hines suggest a number of ways that revenue could be raised to fund energy
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Scotland needs an informed debate on modern monetary theory, and not nonsense based on misrepresentation
Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp is a columnist for The National newspaper in Scotland. I read The National because it is the only reliable pro-independence newspaper in Scotland,
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Data for a Green New Deal
Before Christmas I posted a blog on the Green New Deal to which Joe Burlington posted some responses including a lot of data, which I appreciated. I
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Jersey gets on another tax haven blacklist
This comes from the Channels Islands Bailiwick Express: Jersey has been dubbed a blacklisted “tax haven” alongside 20 other jurisdictions by the Netherlands, as the
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Why rail nationalisation is not a priority – but massive rail reform is
I received a comment on the blog last night which suggested I ignore an international expert and his comments on competition law because the case
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A work programme for 2019 – in pursuit of the sustainable economy that we need
As I have made clear, there are a great many reasons to be worried about the economy and related political issues in 2019. The sense
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