The Guardian posted this yesterday, but amongst everything else that happened I missed it: Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday to halt all federal funding for
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On the causes for war: a further explanation
The explanation for war that I offered here yesterday has, it seems, upset some people. That is because, I think, some suggested that it was
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Might the US be about to fall off an economic cliff?
I am grateful to Dr Tim Rideout for drawing my attention to the GDP Now forecast run by the Atlanta Fed in the USA. As
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Sequestered Russian funds are not the answer to any question in themselves
I have, I admit, been struggling as to how to explain issues around the potential use of Russian sequestered central bank and oligarch funds that
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Chaos is not an adequate word to describe yesterday
What a day, yesterday was. Trump declared economic warfare on Mexico, Canada and China, imposing tariffs of 25 per cent in the first two cases.
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Is the state really as inefficient as people claim?
Many claim that the state is inefficient, but is that because they’re simply using the wrong criterion for appraising it? This is the audio version:
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Trudeau: speaking truth to power
This is from Twitter, so I provide no link: Why can’t Starmer speak plain truths in the same way? And how long will it be
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Thinking about war and related issues – the start of a process
It was not my intention to undertake a large thinking exercise about the Ukrainian conflict this week, but it seemed necessary to do so to
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