I noted this morning that Steve Keen has a video out on the housing crisis. I am also aware that many here are not great
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When all that’s left is the rentier economy
As the Guardian reports this morning: When all that’s left is the rentier economy — and in households that rent, that is the only interest
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Bonds and the bond markets
The glossary entry on bonds has, finally, been published. Just follow the link. The draft I published a week or so ago was amended slightly
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The Quantum Essays: You can try it if you like, but you’d far better notter
Yesterday was Sunday, and so Jacqueline and I did, as seems to be our habit, discuss quantum-related issues, partly with the need to post chapter
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It is time we got on with the process of change
I know it’s a cliche to quote Gramsci saying: The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the
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We need a Basic British Bank
We’re told that competition makes everything better — cheaper, fairer, more efficient. But when it comes to banks, that’s a myth. Six giant institutions dominate
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Economics questions: the John Rawls question
This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been,
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Nationalism – good or bad?
RobertJ asked a question on this blog yesterday that goes to the heart of how I believe that we should think about belonging, identity, and
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Starmer’s finally found what he’s good at
A Guardian headline this morning says: However, the news is that Starmer has no intention of giving Lucy Powell a job back in the Cabinet.
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