It's time for a new path on the economic crisis that we face
Saturday, April 23rd, 2022As I mentioned a couple of days ago, Danny Blanchflower and I have written a feature for The Mirror on how to get out of
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Is the Bank of England at risk of missing a major downturn again?
Friday, April 22nd, 2022As I have already mentioned on this blog, Danny Blanchflower and I have been working together on our vision for the economic policy that the
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A world debt crisis on its way
Thursday, April 21st, 2022I have already noted the BBC story based on an interview between Faisal Islam and World Bank boss David Malpass. There is another dimension to
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The world market in food is about to fail large parts of the world's population. Are the free-marketeers going to let these people live, or not in that case? That is the question to which an answer is now needed.
Thursday, April 21st, 2022As the BBC has reported: The world is facing a “human catastrophe” from a food crisis arising from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to the
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The Social Consensus - second edition
Thursday, April 21st, 2022I wrote recently about the Social Consensus, as I call it, setting out the high-level principles that should, in my opinion, guide the operation of
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Recession is not coming: it’s almost certainly already here
Tuesday, April 19th, 2022According to The Guardian this morning: Britain’s economy is at growing risk of falling into a summer recession amid the biggest squeeze on household incomes
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The social consensus
Sunday, April 17th, 2022In the book I am working on I ask the question ‘what is government for?’ After all, working out how to pay for what the
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The Financial Reporting Council misses the point about auditing, again
Friday, April 15th, 2022I have a column on the failure of the Financial Reporting Council’s new moves on corporate governance and audit registration, announced this week, on AccountingWEB,
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Sunak: they non-dom hedge fund managers friend
Wednesday, April 13th, 2022Rowena Mason noted in the Guardian yesterday that Sunak has not made many big statements on tax. Nor has he had a lot to say
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