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Comment on macroeconomic issues
Tuesday, 26 November 2024
Should governments protect citizens from external shocks to living standards?
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One of the themes in post-US election analysis, including my own , has been the shock to real income caused by recent commodity prices inc...
Tuesday, 19 November 2024
Freedom of Speech and Media Regulation
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In two recent blog posts I returned to the issue of lack of media regulation, and the way lack of regulation is helping right wing popul...
Tuesday, 12 November 2024
How could they vote for him?
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By now you will have probably read thousands of words about Trump’s sweeping election victory, so what can I hope to add? The biggest puz...
Tuesday, 5 November 2024
The Markets, the Budget, the Media and electing a Fascist
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Our readers are too stupid to understand financial arbitrage and very basic macroeconomics, so we will pretend financial markets are like ...
Thursday, 31 October 2024
A budget that points the way but doesn’t get us very far
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Did Rachel Reeves set Labour on a path to ending austerity, and making up for the lack of public investment over the last fourteen years? ...
Tuesday, 22 October 2024
October Budget 7: Soaking the rich?
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This, my final post on the forthcoming budget, is designed to provide a guide to how to read what Reeves announces (or doesn’t announce) i...
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