Starmer makes me despair
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023Keir Starmer was interviewed by the ever-affable Justin Webb on the Tory Today programme on BBC Radio 4 this morning. Paul Waugh, chief political correspondent
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The banking system is just a charade as the failure of First Republic in the US proves
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023This weekend saw the second-biggest bank failure in US history. As the FT reported yesterday, US bank, First Republic was closed with the active involvement
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MMT, Steve Keen, and friends
Sunday, April 30th, 2023I was on Steve Keen and Friends yesterday. This is the video, all two hours of it: We discussed a lot of topics, with much
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MMT - the differences
Saturday, April 29th, 2023I am not sure what others have made of the discussions on modern monetary theory (MMT) that have dominated this blog during the last week
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Sorting out the spend and tax cycle in modern monetary theory
Friday, April 28th, 2023The post that follows is one of my ongoing series on thinking about what modern monetary theory (MMT) says and what I think it should
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Why has every chartered accountant had an £89 subsidy from the fines paid by those accountants whose worked imposed a cost on society?
Thursday, April 27th, 2023The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales has, according to page 8 of its 2022 annual report that has just been published, 166,397
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All progress is dependent upon us asking questions
Wednesday, April 26th, 2023Roy Lilley pointed to a fascinating article in the Harvard Business Review from 2015 this morning. In it, Tom Pohlman and Neethi Mary Thomas note that in
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The BBC should, in the interests of objective reporting, present a balanced view on the national debt
Tuesday, April 25th, 2023How wrong can the BBC be about money? It seems that the answer is ‘Quite dramatically wrong’. I offer as evidence an article on the
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MMT should be about the real world and not angels on pinheads
Tuesday, April 25th, 2023My exchanges on MMT are ongoing. One is with NeilW, who I presume to be Neil Wilson. In that exchange, I suggested that: MMT is
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