MMT does work, no really - in Argentina
Modern Monetary Theory does come under a certain amount of attack from time to time.
The Environment Thrives when the Economy Grows
As environmental issues fall in the list of priorities for the British public, we should be reassured by the environmental Kuznets Curve that the issue will reappear once more.
UK advertising is largely helpful, not manipulative
Advertising provides useful information. It primarily functions to inform people about the products and services available to them.
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.
People feel powerless and disillusioned when they talk about “Broken Britain”
There has been a loss of trust in institutions that once felt stable - the NHS, schools, the police, the postal service, all struggling
It’s per capita, stupid
Last night on BBC Newsnight, Mehreen Khan, the economics editor of The Times, told the nation that ‘the economy grows because the population grows’, effectively arguing that economic growth without migration is impossible.
Why not, you know, just not have the bad policies?
Amsterdam’s squatter wars are back – and wealthy Dutch homeowners have only themselves to blame
The road to wealth
To make people in the UK wealthier, the government would need to balance short-term growth stimulus with long-term productivity improvements.
What do we do now, given the Establishment’s gone mad?
Guardian editorials are the closest Britain’s liberal establishment gets to the Sermon on the Mount - the irreducible minimum of the belief system.
No news is good news
Many sources point to a pronounced decline, especially among younger people, in the UK’s news consumption since 2015.
No, really, this time is different. Honest
The phrase you never do want to hear in a financial market is “This time is different”.