For the second morning in a row I have watched a leading Tory politician being given a hard time by a BBC television journalist. Yesterday
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The Observer commentator Nick Cohen is not much loved by many on the left it seems to me. That’s because he is a liberal. But
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I wrote what follows below in May 2020. The coronavirus was then developing – but the reality of lockdown, social distancing and much else was
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I am sharing this blog from the IMF, simply because I think it really important: Crypto Boom Poses New Challenges to Financial Stability By Dimitris Drakopoulos, Fabio
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I post this from my friends and colleagues at The Counterbalance, with their permission: Taking on vested interests in Greece Anti-monopoly regulators can be powerful,
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As is, I guess, fairly obvious to those who read this blog I wake up fairly early most mornings and within minutes am reading and
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The Banque de France has issued a working paper on modern monetary theory (MMT). In the introduction to it they say: In the last few
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I welcome this editorial from the FT this morning: There is nothing much in the editorial that I have not said before. It is, however,
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This chart is in data just published for August by the Bank of England: Bank lending to businesses is now negative i.e. in aggregate businesses
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