Don’t mess with prices
It is indeed true that some people do not have as much money as we’d like them to have in a country as rich as we are.
We’ve not the numbers to manage the economy - so, don’t
The Office for National Statistics is not providing the numbers that the planners require in order to be able to do that planning stuff.
If people cash in before a tax rise then are they rational?
Another little piece of evidence here. There is that claim over on the idiot left that not just neoliberalism but the whole of neoclassical economics is bunk because of the assumption of rationality among the people.
We need to do less about climate change then
Politicians and policymakers significantly underestimate the public’s willingness to contribute to climate action, limiting the ambition and scope of green policies, according to research.
The yield on gilts is not at any type of high
Given our well known love of contrarianism around here we’d just like to point out that the yields on gilt are not at a high.
Farewell then, the Lewes Pound - You were not an optimal currency area
Farewell to the Lewes Pound, the UK’s last local currency.
An £800 million proof of why we’ve no economic growth
As we’ve been known to point out economic growth is people doing new things, or old things in new ways, or, perhaps, just more of those old things.
People are rational. No, no, really
One of the more idiot arguments against standard neoclassical economics is that it assumes that people are rational.
How can this be? Relax planning and house prices fall?
But, but, we’ve everyone and their Granny insisting to us that housing is different.
MMT does work, no really - in Argentina
Modern Monetary Theory does come under a certain amount of attack from time to time.
A steel industry cash grab
The steel industry should be told to go away and think again here. Even, told with a little Anglo Saxon language sprinkled around.