Thursday, 6 August 2015

The Bank, helicopter money and fiscal conservatism

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I want to connect two apparently quite different blogs. The first is by Fergus Cumming from the Bank of England on helicopter money, and t...
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Wednesday, 5 August 2015

A way forward for the centre left on deficits

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When it comes to fiscal policy the politics of the right at the moment [1] could be reasonably described as deficit fetishism. The policy o...
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Monday, 3 August 2015

Is deficit fetishism innate or contextual?

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In a couple of interesting posts , Jonathan Hopkin and Ben Rosamond, political scientists from the LSE and Copenhagen respectively, talk a...
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Friday, 31 July 2015

Corbyn's popularity and relativistic politics

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This is just a short gripe about some of the commentary around the Labour leadership contest. So many who write about this express their ...
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Thursday, 30 July 2015

The wheels on the bus

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I have an image in my mind. Its a bus running downhill, and its brakes have failed. There are four men in the front cab. The two men in the...
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Tuesday, 28 July 2015

An optimistic view: a UK investment led recovery

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Someone wrote to me the other day to complain that my posts were always negative in tone. I understand where they were coming from, as ther...
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Monday, 27 July 2015

Should central bankers stick to talking about monetary policy?

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Few disagree that the recent remarks on corporate governance and investment made by Andy Haldane (Chief Economist at the Bank of England) ...
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