I did an hour-long special on Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (GERS) for Scotnomics last night. This is it.

I think it is appropriate to give praise where it is due. I can be quite critical of the tax justice movement. I am only
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Something strange is happening in discussion about money, debt, interest and monetary policy. I would almost say that there are signs that the debate is
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It’s summer. The economy is collapsing. Covid is still rampant. The climate crisis is developing rapidly. Democracy is in peril, but what the heck? It’s
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I mentioned yesterday that Prof Andrew Baker, a colleague at the University of Sheffield, and I had won an award for our academic journal paper
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I am pleased to note that Prof Andrew Baker of Sheffield University and I were today awarded the Cambridge University Press Award for Excellence in
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I have just posted a series of Tweets on the national debt. It seems that politicians from all parties are now queueing up to say
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There is much talk this morning about the Covid debt crisis that the UK faces and the fact that this is going to require cuts
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The biggest crisis facing the world right now is the lack of Covid vaccines. There are ample other issues coming on close behind, I concede,
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