Many people have been asking me where Danny Blanchflower had disappeared to of late. The answer was that Danny was thrown off Twitter by Twitter,
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The world is unfair and anti-democratic
My friend and fellow Mile End Road economist Danny Blanchflower has fallen foul of Twitter. They have suspended his account: I have spoken to Danny.
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Today’s decision by the Monetary Policy Committee
Danny Blanchflower and I sent this letter to the FT yesterday. It did not get in, so I will share it here instead: Sir or
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Banking is at a massive crossroads. It is time that we talked about what comes next.
Janet Yellen has talked about the US government offering a 100% Federal government guarantee to all depositors in smaller US banks, of which there are
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Let’s not pretend otherwise: we have a banking crisis. It is time to talk about it rather than deny it.
Martin Wolf has an article in the FT this morning which is good. First, he says we have a bank crisis, and I agree with
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Central bank reaction to the banking crisis is too little, too late already
Danny Blanchflower and I have released this press release this afternoon: Too little, too late, Central bank reaction to the growing global banking crisis is
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Banking is in meltdown, again. Will central bankers finally accept that their job is to serve society and not bankers?
That there would be a meltdown in world banking was obvious to Danny Blanchflower and me as we worked on our submission to the Treasury
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In the Guardian
Danny Blanchflower and I are in the Guardian this afternoon with a Larry Elliott article dedicated to our new report: What we are suggesting is
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The Bank of England needs an urgent change of strategy on interest rates, quantitative easing and quantitative tightening if they are not to crash the economy
Prof David (Danny) Blanchflower and I made a joint submission to the House of Commons treasury Committee on Friday. They had asked for evidence on
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