The Library of the Canadian Parliament issued a document in 2015 explaining how the Bank of Canada (that country’s central bank) created money for the Canadian federal government. Since
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In a post I published here yesterday, I explained that in a country like the UK, which issues its own currency, has an effective tax system,
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I think this is very apt:

For over 45 years, neoliberal and neoclassical economics have dominated UK policy — and failed us. These models rest on absurd assumptions about human behaviour,
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One of the most important things to understand about how government finances work is that in a country like the UK, which issues its own
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I am often awed by how good the UK intelligence services must be. In fact, they are so good that right now, it would seem
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Yesterday’s poll on the video that I produced on Gary Stevenson‘s comments in a video earlier this week was interesting. This is the poll result
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The tech support member of this blog’s team, Andy Moyle, wrote the code to introduce a word count on comments yesterday, and the system went
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These ten questions needing answers from UK politicians were posted as a comment on the blog overnight by RobertJ. I think they are far too relevant
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