ChatGPT told me it had improved its image creation abilities. So I asked it to produce an image of someone called Richard Murphy, whom I
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Trump’s tariffs aren’t meant to make economic sense
The Guardian had an article yesterday headlined: I am sure that a sub-editor who wrote the headline thought that it was logical. It was not.
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Is it time for the Bancor?
In 1944, Lord Keynes proposed that the post-war settlement should include the creation of a new currency to be used solely for international settlement purposes.
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Why are governments so frightened?
Neoliberalism has failed, but the Labour government is wedded to it. No wonder they’re so frightened. They realise that we might rumble that they, too,
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It’s time for a reset, and Reeves won’t be doing it
When you have watched the economy for as long as I have, you have seen a stock market crisis or two along the way. I
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Speaking truth to power
I decided to call Donald Trump a fascist when I was on BBC Radio 5 Live this morning. That was a conscious, preordained choice. I
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On the Nicky Campbell show on BBC Radio 5 Live this morning
I was on BBC Radio 5 Live this morning, talking on Nicky Campbell’s show, with whom I seem to be popular. The question that Nicky
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The world needs to realise that we are at war with a fascist tyrant in the USA
As Heather Cox Richardson has noted in her Letter from an American this morning: The plan, as Vice President J.D. Vance explained in a 2021
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The neoliberal thinking that underpins Trump’s tariffs is a form of madness
I have already noted this morning that we need to be rid of neoliberalism if we are to have politics that cares about the well-being
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