I have some interest in Stephanie Kelton’s book ‘The Deficit Myth’. My name is on the back cover of the UK edition, after all. So
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When will politicians begin to appreciate the scale of the climate crisis, and their role in addressing it?
If you want to be depressed read this, from The Guardian: Governments are spending vastly more in support of fossil fuels than on low-carbon energy
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A government review of capital gains tax is to be welcomed – and is an opportunity for change
I have already welcomed one government initiative this morning, and now let me welcome another. The Office for Tax Simplification has announced a review of
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A Green Investment Bank is on its way back – and since it’s a necessary condition for the Green New Deal let’s not get too nit-picking, yet
I sometimes criticise our government. It’s only appropriate then to note when it is moving in the right direction. This is good news, from The
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Today’s video: Micro v Macro, the big divide in economics
Understanding the difference between micro and macroeconomics is key to understanding why countries cannot max out the credit card and austerity cannot work, and yet
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The government’s costs of borrowing are going to fall as a result of the coronavirus crisis
If the debt fetishists were to be believed the additional supposed borrowing that the government is going to take on to pay for the coronavirus
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The Office for Budget Responsibility does not think interest rates are going to rise – so can we stop obsessing about it?
I wrote yesterday that the chance of an interest rate rise is remote in the extreme. About 10,000 people have read that blog post now.
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The coronavirus crisis is going to make a lot of people in the UK very much wealthier
The Office for Budget Responsibility has published its analysis of the coronavirus (to date) today. I will do a number of blogs on what it
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The Financial Reporting Council really does have a duty to present its own data on audit quality truthfully and fairly
The Financial Reporting Council oversees the audits by big firms undertaken in the UK. They review the activities of the largest seven audit firms (PWC,
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