After a night where I spent more time awake than asleep, a few thoughts on an article that caught my attention as my nose and
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Scotland should take control of its banks
I might not feel like writing much this morning, but I have a column in The National this morning suggesting that it is time for
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Planning for a crash
I got asked yesterday: A quick question, which possibly doesn’t have an answer: what, if anything, can ‘the little people’ do to mitigate it? (Because,
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What should have been done to prevent a crash?
I was asked on the blog yesterday what the government could have done after 2008 to prevent the almost inevitable financial crash that I think
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Markets look very vulnerable right now
According to the FT this morning: The blue-chip S&P 500 index will rise to more than 7,500 points by the end of 2026, a roughly
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Why is the left so frightened of MMT?
Why is the left still terrified of the state’s power to create money? In this video, I set out a straightforward truth, which is that
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The UK is cursed: how finance destroyed our economy
For more than 45 years, the UK has suffered not one, but two economic curses: the resource curse and the finance curse. Both were chosen,
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The hypocrisy of bankers needs to come to an end
There was a comment posted on this blog overnight, which might reasonably be called a tirade about the temerity of my suggestion that we might
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The alternative budget we need: the video
Rachel Reeves will not fix Britain today. So I’ve published my Alternative Budget for 2025 — a complete plan to end austerity, rebuild public services,
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