The FT has noted that: Trucks would face six-day queues to board ferries at Dover if new customs checks in the event of a no-deal
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MMT and Scotland, again
The National newspaper in Scotland has returned to the subject of modern monetary theory, again. George Kerevan has commented on Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp’s article for the same
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Davos wants a better measure of failure
This has only just come to my attention, but that makes little difference to the points I make: Yes, that’s the Davos crowd making this
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If only our politicians had the courage of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Paul Krugman wrote a New York Times piece at the weekend praising the thinking of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. What thinking, precisely? Her support for highest income tax
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The Green New Deal and the demise of the petrodollar
Marco Fante wrote this on the blog overnight. I thought it worth sharing in full. It shows just how radical the Green New Deal really
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Tackling high pay through the tax code – to collect £4.6 billion in tax
I have contributed this piece to a new Class Think Tank publication to mark what is called Fat Cat Day: Tackling high pay through the
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The Green New Deal in the Guardian this morning
Let’s make 2019 the year of a green new deal Richard Murphy and Colin Hines suggest a number of ways that revenue could be raised to fund energy
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Scotland needs an informed debate on modern monetary theory, and not nonsense based on misrepresentation
Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp is a columnist for The National newspaper in Scotland. I read The National because it is the only reliable pro-independence newspaper in Scotland,
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Data for a Green New Deal
Before Christmas I posted a blog on the Green New Deal to which Joe Burlington posted some responses including a lot of data, which I appreciated. I
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