Universal basic income (UBI) is often dismissed as unaffordable, unrealistic, or politically impossible. But the conversation I had recently with Howard Reed and Elliott Johnson
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As is clear from multiple media reports, the dispute between the Trump administration and the US Federal Reserve (which is the US equivalent of the
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As I mentioned before Christmas, I have been working on a summary of modern monetary theory to be published in our PDF shop. I initially
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Steve Keen wrote this on Substack yesterday: YouTube popped a video into my feed of Niall Ferguson (the author of The Ascent of Money: a financial
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This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been,
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I was asked this question on the blog yesterday by Anja Cradden: I have a slightly related, slightly tangential question… is there a relationship between
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Markets are not natural, spontaneous or free. They are legal, institutional and political creations of the state. Without law, money, regulation, wages, accounting standards and
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I promised a commentator here yesterday that I would explain the term ‘borrower of last resort’ by writing a new glossary entry on the issue.
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Zack Polanski issued a Christmas message yesterday that demanded the country solve the problem of small boats crossing the English Channel. As he pointed out,
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