Theresa May will lose in the Commons today. And badly. That is accepted fact, it seems. Just as it is accepted fact that this will
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If the Green New Deal is to happen advertising has to be constrained
I have long been intrigued by the power of advertising, which I see as almost universally harmful. I wrote this on the subject in my
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Resignation
It is hard not to feel resigned to our fate today. Like millions of others I am bored to my back teeth and beyond by
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How big is the crisis we face?
I took part in a discussion of macroeconomic policy this week. One participant dismissed discussion based on the scale of our current crisis that suggested
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Time to move on from old nuclear
The FT has reported this morning that: Hitachi is on the verge of abandoning its plan to build a nuclear power station at Wylfa in
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Is HMRC letting big business off the tax hook?
HMRC have announced a new tax amnesty. And this time it is for big business. It’s called the Profit Diversion Compliance Facility, and what it
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National Investment Banks: a lecture by Professor Stephany Griffith-Jones 29 January 2019
I have known Professor Stephany Griffith-Jones for some time. We are now both members of the Progressive Economy Forum, for whom she is presenting a
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Scotland needs modern monetary theory
Another day, and another good modern monetary theory article, this time from Robin McAlpine at Common Weal in Scotland, with whom I work on occasion. As
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The only viable alternative macroeconomic policy there is
The Innovation Forum website has an article out under the heading Could an innovative Green New Deal kick start 2019? It says: The history of
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