Would you like to see your GP, or know that the government is restricting your access using cast-iron fiscal rules?
Thursday, May 2nd, 2024One of the greatest source of disquiets about the NHS is not that there are long hospital waiting lists – although no-one is overly chuffed
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Wednesday, May 1st, 2024I received a copy of an email this morning saying: This is a link to Richard Murphy’s video on inflation… It’s excellent, as usual, but…does
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Labour Party? Pull the other one....
Wednesday, May 1st, 2024It is, of course, May Day. Or Workers Day. And so, the FT reports this morning that: Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour party is set to
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The US is tottering on the brink of becoming a fascist state
Wednesday, May 1st, 2024As a Guardian newsletter has noted this morning: The former US president, Donald Trump, was fined $9,000 for violating a gag order designed to protect
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Why monopolies are harmful
Tuesday, April 30th, 2024I posted this video on YouTube this morning. As I said of it on YouTube: Monopolies exist when one or a very few companies or
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Nationalising Thames Water will not in any way threaten the stability of UK financial markets
Monday, April 29th, 2024The Guardian is making a splash this morning on his story: Senior Whitehall officials fear Thames Water’s financial collapse could trigger a rise in government
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It really is time that politicians took note of modern monetary theory
Monday, April 29th, 2024The Guardian has an editorial this morning that I recommend reading in full, but which I will discuss here nonetheless. Of most note in their
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Tax does not pay for government spending
Monday, April 29th, 2024I posted this video on YouTube this morning. As I wrote in the explanatory note that accompanied it, probably the biggest challenge to understanding how
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The Premier League is an oligopolist erecting effective barriers to market entry. What is anyone going to do about it?
Monday, April 29th, 2024As the Guardian notes this morning, this is the current state of the UK’s football premier league: There is, I promise, good economic reason for
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