I noted some discussion on my Facebook page yesterday (to which I link my blog posts but otherwise pretty much ignore) on why I was
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If you want a giggle this analysis of MMT from a hard Marxist perspective is amusing for the politics and economics geek. Written by Adam
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I am struggling with an article by Keith Brown MSP in The National this morning. In it he argues: This week’s GERS figures show that
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The FT has reported on Sajid Javid’s tax plans, noting this: “It wouldn’t be any surprise that I think taxes should be efficient. We want
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I am not going to say that it’s a fact of life that everything reverts to the mean. Partly that’s because that’s not true of
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Common space, the news website linked to the Common Weal think tank in Scotland, reported last Thursday that: FIRST MINISTER Nicola Sturgeon has tentatively revealed
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The Institute for Fiscal Studies finding that more UK tax is being paid by a smaller group at the top of the income scale resulted
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The FT reported last night: Boris Johnson is preparing to spend billions more on health and social care, including a hospital building programme and a
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Simon Wren-Lewis has written a response to criticism of Labour’s Fiscal Credibility Rule (FCR) in the New Statesman. Simon co-authored this rule with Jonathan Portes.
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