Ambrose Evans Pritchard is the International Business Editor of The Daily Telegraph. In an article on 9 March he claimed that Joe Biden’s $1.9trn stimulus
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Currency is the collective power of the people
Congratulations to Jim Osborne, who comments regularly here, on what I think is his first article in The National newspaper in Scotland this morning. As
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The nurses’ pay award will be about much more than 1%. This is about deciding the type of society that we want in the post-Covid world
I have posted this thread on Twitter this morning: Why does Johnson wants to take on the nurses? Is this his Union fight; a version
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Pointless pain is what we’re enduring. And all for the sake of accepting that money is not a constraint on our potential, and never will be
There is no budget that does not unravel. Rishi Sunak’s has. It’s apparent there is much wrong with it, but the most significant was the
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The interview I want to hear on Radio 4
I have been asked by some politicians to answer the question ‘How we should we deal with the mountain of Covid debt?’ which is the
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Who pays for COVID-19? In search of tax justice
The above was the slightly awkward title that my talk to Keele World Affairs ended up with. The talk will be available in video format
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Breaking the austerity myth
I learned this morning that I podcast I recorded recently with Manda Scott for the Accidental Gods podcast series has been published. This comes from
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Thursday evening
If you ask the wrong questions about the national debt without first trying to understand what it is you do, of course, get the wrong answers
I watched Channel 4’s Dispatches on who pays for Covid last night, largely in despair. Partly that was at the choice of the hard-right economics
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