This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been,
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I noted comments from RobertJ and long-time commentator PSR on this blog recently about morals and the acquisition of money (as PSR put it), and felt it
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I screenshot this chart yesterday afternoon: I could be wrong, but I get the feeling that people are rumbling the fact that Bitcoin is a
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Rachel Reeves will be presenting her Budget on November 26, if the Labour government of which she is a part lasts that long. I will
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For forty years we were told that Britain didn’t need manufacturing — finance would make us rich. That experiment has failed. We import more than
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One to watch for in next week’s Budget and associated forecasts is the suggested impact of AI on employment rates in the UK. The FT
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The Tories’ response to Covid in March 2020 was chaotic and indecisive, according to the official report on the issue. The Guardian notes: “Too little
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There is a new page on this blog today. You can find it from the main menu. That has got three lines on it, top
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There has been some criticism here of my overuse of the term ‘neoliberalism’, which, it has been suggested, is not widely understood beyond the environs
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