I am not the first person to note that government ministers were lying through their back teeth about the benefits of Brexit yesterday. On this
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Ducking the issue: QE is a policy for which HM Treasury is responsible and ministers should not deny it
David Lowry sent me this Q&A from the House of Lords: Why share it? Because what this reveals is a government willing to hide behind
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Why is Scotland still debating whether it will need its own currency when independent when the answer is so glaringly obviously that it will?
There is still an ongoing debate on whether Scotland would need its own currency immediately after independence. I am baffled by this. The answer is yes
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Rational expectations as a basis for macroeconomics? Really?
I was bemused by a comment made during the course of the debate I took part in last night on modern monetary theory. A person
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Does Scotland needs its own central bank after independence?
The discussion that was organised by the Scottish Currency Group that addressed this issue last Sunday has now been issued as a YouTube video: Those
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Tesco, tax compliance and the non-maximisation of profit
Tesco has announced that it will be returning the business rates relief that it was entitled to as a consequence of government support for retailers
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How to solve the long term interest issue
There is concern that bank base rate increases will impact the cost of central bank reserve accounts which have effectively replaced around £800 billion of
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Charities and culture wars
I am a big fan of the work of a charity specialist named Andrew Purkis. His blog is here. I share his opinion that far
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MMT: a primer
I have said what follows before on this blog, but some things bear repetition. And given that I am speaking about modern monetary theory (MMT)
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