It was in 1983 that Margaret Thacher told a Tory Party conference that: There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers’
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My old friend, Professor Prem Sikka, who is now a member of the House of Lords, spoke in a debate on quantitative easing in that
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There is an article by Ruchir Sharma, who is Morgan Stanley Investment Management’s chief global strategist, in the FT today. In it he argues that
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As the Guardian notes this morning: Keir Starmer will make a pitch to win over Britain’s business leaders by promising a Labour government will not
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A week ago I posted here on the Scottish currency issue, in the context of a stooshie (English: kerfuffle) I had created when commenting on
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I admit that I have been struggling to find appropriate words to write since it became apparent that COP26 really would not deliver anything like
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This is a phenomenally powerful speech from the Prime Minister of Barbados at COP 26. She says the world could use quantitative easing to beat
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I did a Youtube meeting with the Scotonomics team of Kairin van Sweeden and William Thomson last night, roaming over a whole range of green
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This paragraph is in William Beveridge’s 1944 report on full employment, admittedly from the 1960 edition: I have highlighted key sentences, but those in between
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