A commentator on this blog called Grahame asked about the role of tax in modern monetary theory yesterday. I pointed him to the Taxing Wealth
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I was asked on the blog yesterday what the government could have done after 2008 to prevent the almost inevitable financial crash that I think
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Modern Monetary Theory — or modern money as I prefer to call it — simply describes the truth about how money works in the real
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I take a camera with me everywhere: it is my phone. Admittedly, I have a bit of kit that is permanently attached to it to
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It is often claimed that Mahatma Ghandi said: First, they ignore you Then they laugh at you Then they attack you Then you win. No
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One of the questions most often asked about modern monetary theory is what difference it might make to the management of the economy if it
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I have been talking about financial crashes here for a while now. The Bank of England Financial Stability Report, to which I refer in my
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The Bank of England has issued a stark new Financial Stability Report — and beneath the cautious language lies a clear message: the global risk
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The Guardian notes this morning that: Nigel Farage has turned on broadcasters for questioning him about his alleged teenage racism and antisemitism as the number
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