On 20 January, Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the US Congress, is going to address both Houses of Parliament. This, I gather, is unprecedented. The
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This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been,
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Artificial intelligence is often presented as a growth driver. I argue the opposite risk is emerging. AI-driven cost-cutting threatens jobs and demand, with the risk
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Steve Keen wrote this on Substack yesterday: YouTube popped a video into my feed of Niall Ferguson (the author of The Ascent of Money: a financial
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Voltaire supposedly said: Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. The logic is that if people surrender their reason and
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We like to believe medicine exists solely to heal. History tells a different story. From slavery to women’s dissent, from homosexuality to neurodivergence, medical authority
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In this morning’s Letter from an American, Heather Cox Richardson said: Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S. Army
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We went goosing this morning. I am not sure goosing is a word, but it is in the Murphy household. Geese are high on our
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We are just one working week into 2026, but it feels very much longer. The US has invaded a country illegally and seized its president.
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