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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One of the questions most often asked about modern monetary theory is what difference it might make to the management of the economy if it
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I have been talking about financial crashes here for a while now. The Bank of England Financial Stability Report, to which I refer in my
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I am proud to write for a newspaper – The National – that puts this on its front page. Most of the media is ignoring
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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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An email correspondent said this to me recently: MMT puts the horse before the cart; but I suspect if you designed the harness well, horses
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There are thousands of trained doctors in the UK right now — unemployed. Not because they’re unnecessary. Not because there’s no demand. But because the
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The Guardian reports this morning that: The health secretary, Wes Streeting, has ordered a clinical review of the diagnosis of mental health conditions, according to reports.
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I listened to the first of the BBC Reith lectures for this year last night. The lecture was given by Dutch historian Rutger Bergman. The
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