mainly macro

I normally publish posts in the first half of the week, but two separate attempts were overtaken by events, and they will have to wait for...

That the Bank of England was temporarily eliminating the limit on the Ways and Means Facility caused a bit of a stir last Thursday (9th A...

Newspaper day. In the Guardian I have a piece that looks at how we should regard any tax cuts that Boris Johnson may announce as part of ...

The Green New Deal has recently been promoted by a group of Democrats including the inspirational Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez . I fir...

This post not about the main part of this address, although as its my area and interesting I may write about it later. Instead I’m going t...

Most of the posts I have written about austerity have been aimed at countering the idea that in a recession you need to bring down governm...

After my Thursday post and New Statesman piece , I had a lot of comments that said something along the lines of: I see what you are saying...

I don’t write enough about Japan, and now that some of my posts are very kindly being translated into Japanese I should try to remedy that....

A number of people, including the occasional economic journalist, are puzzled about why government debt at 90% of GDP seemed to cause our n...