In 2010 I wrote this in a paper co-authored with Colin Hines on what we thought should be the future of quantitative easing: More than
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Charlie Watts RIP
Some things need to be noted, and Charlie Watts’ death is one of them. I am too much a Stones fan not to do so.
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What are the limits to government money creation?
This is the third in a series of four videos exploring the value of money created to mark the 50th anniversary of the final end of
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Tax can shape society: we should use it to do so
As the FT noted yesterday: The number of UK house and flat sales plummeted last month after buyers accelerated their purchases in June to beat an
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What I think XR should be saying about capitalism
There were many reports yesterday on Extinction Rebellion’s (XR’s) occupation of a part of Covent Garden to protest about the role of the City of
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How the government can afford its promise to pay
In a previous video I have explained that for fifty years all that has given money its value is the government’s promise to pay. This
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The Scottish government needs to say what it means about fair tax
I noted this in the new deal between the SNP and Greens in Scotland: I highlighted the last paragraph for a reason. Defining tax avoidance
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Why are ministers indifferent to our food supply chains being asset-stripped?
As the Guardian has reported: Let’s be clear how private equity works. It buys companies using debt finance. The private equity investor usually has little
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The failure of the Afghan economy is not about Western policy as such, it is about the West’s willingness to tolerate corruption in all its forms as what it sees as an essential part of the economy
From my Twitter comments this morning: From the FT this morning, but the same could be said for much of the West in the same
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