What if the real economic madness of this moment isn’t trying something new but refusing to do so? Austerity has failed. Inequality is rising. Yet
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The IMF is delivering its usual economic orthodoxy in force at its Autumn Meeting, as this report from the FT suggests: The IMF has warned
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As Sky News has reported: Rachel Reeves has told Sky News she is looking at both tax rises and spending cuts in the budget, in
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This is the second in a new series that will be published daily during the rest of this week. The first quantum economics series and
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Markets may look calm, but the foundations of global finance are anything but secure. Rising government debt, fragile non-bank financial intermediaries, and speculative assets like
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AI doesn’t think. Crypto isn’t money. Both claim to be revolutionary, but both are built on fantasy. In this video, I unpack the shared myth
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Economists still cling to the fantasy of perfect competition — the idea that markets are full of small, powerless firms playing fair. But the real
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As The Guardian notes this morning: Millions more homes in England, Scotland and Wales face devastating floods, and some towns may have to be abandoned
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People know that the politicians they are now being presented with, most especially by Labour and the Tories, are, by and large, useless, without an
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