The FT has this morning reported that: An Obama administration crackdown to stop US businesses pursuing takeovers that let them escape the country’s high corporate
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The FT says Corbyn’s “People’s QE†could actually be a decent idea
The FT has published, in the last hour or so, a review of People’s Quantitative Easing on its FT Alphaville blog site. Written by an FT
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Who pays for People’s QE?
I was asked the following question on People’s QE on the blog this morning: Richard, if you use printed money to pay for investment, who
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The costing of Corbynomics: the FT resorts to hysteria, not analysis
The FT claims this morning that Corbynomics has not been costed. It says: With betting markets showing he is narrowly the second favourite to win
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The Adam Smith Institute is suggesting the UK needs more slums
Thanks to Jolyon Maugham and ‘Nearly Legal’ my attention has been drawn to the winning article in 18-121 category of the Adam Smith Institute ‘Young
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QE does cancel government debt – its own accounts prove the point
I have, for a very long time, argued that quantitative easing – of all forms – cancels government debt. My argument is simple: it is that if
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The economic rationale behind People’s Quantitative Easing
The criticisms of the People’s Quantitative Easing idea by Ben Chu in the Independent and in the Economist. These seem to come down to the following
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If the electorate chose austerity it was because it was the only option available outside Scotland
I am bemused by a post by Jon Cruddas on Labour List this morning. In it he says Labour post election analysis has shown that:
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Putting the record straight on People’s QE
I received an email yesterday which said: You must stop misleading the press and public about the so called Peoples QE. It is more borrowing
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