The FT has reported that: Philip Hammond has warned Theresa May that her plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050 will cost
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So, Labour kept the Brexit Party out in Peterborough. Thank goodness. And the Tories came third. But should anyone be celebrating? I doubt it. The
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A correspondent called James Meek asked a number of what I might call quite normal intelligent questions about MMT yesterday. Let me address them. First
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From the footplate on the Vale of Rheidol Railway this morning: And when we arrived at Devil’s Bridge:

Labour clearly is very worried about the threat that modern monetary theory (MMT) poses to it. No sooner has James Meadway popped up in Tribune
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I was one of 94 signatories to this letter in the Guardian today: Eleven o’clock on Wednesday evening is the deadline for applicants to put
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Modern monetary theory (MMT) is certainly getting it in the neck right now. Two articles I noticed this week were direct attacks in it. And
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I publish this for no better reason than information. It’s from the FT: But some thoughts do follow, of course. First, how much of the
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Jonathan Pie nails it: