Tuesday, 24 January 2023

Should Quantitative Easing be reducing public services?

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  The Autumn Statement saw yet more cuts in public services planned for after the next election in order to get the debt/GDP ratio falling a...
Tuesday, 17 January 2023

What makes politicians act in society’s interests, and how have these mechanisms worked since 1979?

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  A cynical view would be that politicians always act in their own interests. [1] I think that is unrealistic, in that many politicians go i...
Tuesday, 10 January 2023

Did 2010 austerity permanently reduce UK output?

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  An issue that is likely to preoccupy economists for some time, and which I have written the occasional post about, is whether 2010 auster...
Tuesday, 3 January 2023

Health service and real wage decline: why are we only now talking about trends that began over a decade ago?

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  John Burn-Murdoch’s article entitled “Britain’s winter of discontent is the inevitable result of austerity” justifiably got considerable...
Tuesday, 20 December 2022

The political, moral and intellectual bankruptcy of the current Conservative party

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  The UK is currently suffering a level of strike action not seen for decades. There is a simple reason for most of that - it is government ...
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Tuesday, 13 December 2022

The implications of a tipping point in public support for Brexit

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  Labour’s current policy on Brexit is designed to help them win power. There is nothing the government and their press would like more than...
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