Financially incontinent, rather than just incompetent
People have called Rachel Reeves 'financially incontinent' because she can't stop spending money - other people’s money.
Farewell then, the Lewes Pound - You were not an optimal currency area
Farewell to the Lewes Pound, the UK’s last local currency.
Re-establishing the sovereignty of the UK parliament
In the UK’s uncodified constitutional system, Parliamentary sovereignty means that Parliament can make or unmake any law, and that no other body can override or set aside its legislation.
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.
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.