As the Telegraph reports this morning: Jeffrey Epstein brokered a deal with Lord Mandelson over the sale of a UK taxpayer-owned banking business after he
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Introduction In this first podcast style interview between me and Steve Keen, the author of ‘Debunking Economics’, Steve recounts how early encounters with neoclassical and
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The FT has reported this morning that: The government has sounded out private finance investors about backing up to 200 neighbourhood health centres, in a
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We are told that central banks are neutral and above politics. The truth is, they’re not. Central bank independence was created to remove responsibility from
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James Carville, adviser to Bill Clinton, once said that if there were reincarnation, he would like to come back as the bond market, because then
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Fiscal rules are not laws of economics. They are political straitjackets designed to stop change. Every Chancellor since Gordon Brown has used them to limit
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The TUC published this press release yesterday, and I am going to share it as they published it, because I think it is interesting enough
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The Guardian published these maps projecting changes in the population of countries and regions within Europe by 2100 yesterday. This is the map of population
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One of my pleasures in life these days is not travelling nearly as much as I used to. The only way in which this blog
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