The OBR is wrong: we can afford to look after the elderly as this century progresses, but they need to adapt their economic models to reflect what the reality of doing so means for us all
Friday, July 8th, 2022In amongst yesterday’s excitement, a new report from the Office for Budget Responsibility was rather overlooked yesterday. As The Guardian said of it: Britain’s public
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Where the market fails, the state has to step in
Tuesday, July 5th, 2022Polly Toynbee picked up on my ideas published at the weekend on a strategy for the left, saying in her column in the Guardian this
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The Tories economic plan is intended to deliver misery, disruption, chaos, and shattered lives
Monday, July 4th, 2022I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: Sunak and Johnson said yesterday that the Bank of England has to act to tackle inflation caused
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It’s time the government took centre stage in the economy, not least because the financial markets refuse to do so
Monday, July 4th, 2022The economic vision that I posted on Saturday has a longer underpinning (and I would argue, better) document that supports it, and from which it
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Twenty-first century UK fascism
Sunday, July 3rd, 2022There are curses in our time. These are the obstacles that prevent us making the progress towards the world that we need to live in.
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A new economic narrative for the left
Saturday, July 2nd, 2022Byline Times published this yesterday: They noted: My article follows. Left-of-centre thinking has only dominated the economy for one period in history. The post-war consensus
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Shares in quoted companies are almost irrelevant to their funding so why do we let so much emphasis be placed on them?
Friday, July 1st, 2022I have long argued that the stock market is an almost irrelevant institution in UK corporate funding. Put imply, companies do not use equity share
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Tax havens are in effect the aircraft carriers from which assaults on major democratic states and their policies can be launched. No wonder Russia loves them.
Thursday, June 30th, 2022I wrote this more than ten years ago (with minor changes to tenses to suit the new context): Feral capitalism is the unfettered, wild form
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Andrew Bailey is right to forecast deep economic woe for the UK because that’s exactly what he’s planning on delivering
Thursday, June 30th, 2022As the Guardian notes this morning: Britons should expect to suffer a more severe bout of inflation than other major economies during the current energy
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