There was a deeply depressing editorial in the Financial Times published overnight on the subject of Sajid Javid and Boris Johnson abandoning George Osborne’s fiscal
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Helicopter money is the last thing that we need
This morning’s Telegraph main story (care of a BBC tweet) is: Let’s be clear about this: there is no case for helicopter money. Helicopter money
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MMT, tax, pensions, ISA funding and the Green New Deal
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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Getting MMT wrong in the name of Marx
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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The SNP has to wake up to economic reality and plan a future for the people of Scotland and not bankers
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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Sajid Javid’s single paragraph that proves he has not got a clue about tax
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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Reversion to the mean: what chance after Brexit?
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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Scotland can have a job guarantee or the Fiscal Commission plan, but not both
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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Beware the right wing’s claims on income tax payments: their aim is profoundly anti-democratic
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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