More Government Spending Isn’t Always The Solution
There are those who do insist - for entirely reasonable reasons - that more government spending is the answer to every economic woe. Their...
Another Point Of Failure In Modern Monetary Theory
Argentina is just coming up to its ninth default:
Argentina is teetering on the brink of its ninth debt default as its leftist government and...
There’s A Problem With This Talk Of Inequality Of Lifespans
It is a standard part of the current political conversation that lifespans are unequal in the UK. This has the merit of being true...
Oxford’s Green New Deal Coronavirus Stimulus Report
Well, yes, of course the Senior Lecturer is going to claim that he was right all along:
First they ignore you…then Oxford Univesity saus (sic)...
A Sad Lesson About India’s History
That cholera still strikes- and in doing so kills all too many - in India is entirely true. This is not for the reason...
A Sad Lesson For Modern Monetary Theory
The governments of the world are spending trillion upon trillion of newly invented money. Just like that Modern Monetary Theory says they should:
Governments were...
Ed Conway’s Weird, Weird, Economics
This rather worries, that an alleged economist tells us that oil usage is going to peter out. Sure, we can see production falling at...
Ending The Lockdown
This paper from the London School of Economics does not actually tell us when we should end the lockdown. Partly because their model makes...
Economics People, Seriously, Economics
Supergiant oil tankers are floating outside the world’s largest shipping ports with enough oil to meet the world’s daily demand twice over. Only months...
You’re Right, No One At The Guardian Does Understand Economics
So, Spotify has added a button that allows you to donate money directly to some starving hipster. Sorry, musician. Presumably the Berlin Philharmonic needs...