mainly macro

Yesterday, I commented on the Prime Minister’s ‘there is no alternative’ speech, which included the following: “ They [the OBR] are absolute...

So, driving home today, I was told by the BBC that the Prime Minister had just made a ‘robust’ defence of his government’s economic polici...

I have written before about fiscal policy in the Netherlands. I have done so in part because that country has a strong macroeconomic tradit...

Many of us rightly complain about the damage austerity politics is doing in both the UK and the US . However, in terms of simple numbers,...