There remains much discussion of inflation in the media, fuelled by central bankers and others. Yesterday Andrew Bailey from the Bank of England was before
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We have a supposedly wealthy world that looks to be fundamentally feudal that has been created by financial engineering and tax incentives. So now we need to change the rules.
The McKinsey Global Institute has produced a new report on wealth. I have not read all the detail as yet – but strongly suspect I
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The risk within the economy may not be inflation: deflation is just as possible
There was a lot of discussion of US inflation on Twitter last night, lead by comments from Paul Krugman. The argument can be summarised fairly
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We are heading for a massive healthcare crisis by ministerial choice
According to the Guardian, a report that they have seen suggests: People are dying in the back of ambulances and up to 160,000 more a
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There is one issue to be resolved before Scotland can ever consider independence – and that is what currency it will use, to which there is only one answer
A week ago I posted here on the Scottish currency issue, in the context of a stooshie (English: kerfuffle) I had created when commenting on
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COP 26 failed. We need not. But w have to get on with beating the forces that want to kill life in earth. Time is not our side.
I admit that I have been struggling to find appropriate words to write since it became apparent that COP26 really would not deliver anything like
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The Green New Deal is about unification around a new vision of society
This letter from my fellow Green New FDeal Group members, Caroline Lucas MP and Clive Lewis MP, was in the Guardian today, referring to the
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What will make the neoclassical economist realise that there is something more important than market equilibria, and that is life itself?
Chris Giles said this in the FT this morning: Here is a simple question. Has the UK economy already recovered all of the ground lost
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The great success of the Green New Deal is in getting people to believe in it
Aditya Chakrabortty had this to say about an article he wrote for the Guardian yesterday: The column that will probably lose me the most friends:
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