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Comment on macroeconomic issues
Tuesday, 28 November 2023
Fiscal failures: The UK Autumn Statement and the German debt brake
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Many people fear debt, because they worry about the consequences of not being able to pay the interest on it, or pay it back. However it i...
Tuesday, 21 November 2023
Why does the political right have such a problem with reality, and how should experts respond?
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The UK Supreme Court has ruled that the government’s plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda is illegal because the Court does not beli...
Tuesday, 14 November 2023
Current UK and EU stagnation are in part the consequence of deficit obsession
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The rule of thumb journalists use to define a recession, two quarters of negative GDP growth, is unhelpful in many ways. If the economy gr...
Tuesday, 7 November 2023
How could Johnson have become Prime Minister?
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The Covid inquiry has become a trial of Boris Johnson, showing how hopeless and harmful a Prime Minister he was. If you are unconvinced, r...
Tuesday, 31 October 2023
Covid and the unforgivable mistakes that cost tens of thousands of lives in the UK
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As the Covid Inquiry progresses, it is clear the government led by Boris Johnson made two catastrophic mistakes during the pandemic of 20...
Tuesday, 24 October 2023
The extreme right and austerity
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Brad DeLong’s invaluable Grasping Reality carries a section called ‘Very Briefly Noted’, and on 15/10/23 it had the following two items ...
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