A cure for the ‘frit’ economy?
Saturday, August 25th, 2018Eighteen months or so ago I helped launch the Progressive Pulse blog, of which I am the sole director. I think it’s time to give
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Why won’t Scottish nationalists choose their own currency when it is the only way to get what they want?
Thursday, August 23rd, 2018There has been much, appropriate, criticism of the commentary in the media on yesterday’s GERS figures. The BBC represented them as if a fact i.e.
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Labour’s fiscal rule works under any macroeconomic theory presuming it is neoclassical
Sunday, August 12th, 2018As some will have noted, the blog has had rather more discussion of Labour’s planned fiscal rule in the last few days than I might
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The left needs a better quality of economic debate
Wednesday, August 8th, 2018It wasn’t my intention to create quite the fuss I have when commenting on James Meadway’s own comment on modern monetary theory on Carol Wilcox’s Facebook
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The writers of Labour's 'fiscal rule' are opposed to modern monetary theory
Tuesday, August 7th, 2018I mentioned yesterday that James Meadway, who is John McDonnell’s chief economic adviser, had dismissed modern monetary theory out of hand at the weekend, in
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Labour's chief economic adviser confirms it is committed to the thinking that will deliver yet more austerity
Monday, August 6th, 2018I delve into Labour party issues again with some reluctance, but it’s important to do so. This time the issue is right on my home
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The Treasury admit that tax does not fund government spending - as modern monetary theory suggests
Wednesday, July 25th, 2018Peter May has a fascinating post on the Progressive Pulse blog. As he notes: It was almost a year ago that I originally wrote to my
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1945, manifestos, and a new Beveridge
Monday, July 23rd, 2018A regular commentator on this blog, G Hewitt, noted yesterday that the Imperial War Museum notes on their website that: The Labour Party won the
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Debunking myths
Thursday, June 21st, 2018Stephen Fergusson, who wrote the comment I reposted on MMT and football league points, has provided another interesting comment in which he has pointed to
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