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Against Brexit
David Smith writes the ‘Economic Outlook’ column in The Sunday Times Business section. I don’t much like a lot of what he writes because he’s one of those columnists who has believed (and possibly...
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A Critique of the NeoLiberal Agenda from the IMF (well…the bit of it that...
A paper from three IMF economists was recently published in the IMF’s Finance & Development online magazine (F&D) which is primarily aimed at non-economists. It examines neoliberalism in terms...
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On Immigration into UK. It’s (not so) complicated…
I don’t think there is much doubt that the primary emotional driver behind the Leave campaign is that of immigration. Namely, a strong feeling among many British citizens that there are just too many...
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My instinctive take on Brexit (now that it’s happening)
The Brexit result has been achieved through the anger of many of the British people. It will be bad for the UK economy in the short-medium term. I have no idea about the long term (but in the long term...
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What happened between 2010 and 2016. All about Austerity…
I came across something on Yves Smith’s excellent #NakedCapitalism blog, which I thought I’d share with my future self. Before linking it, here’s my own version of the story so far… I’ve kept banging...
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UK 2017-2025? Post anaemic recovery, post Brexit, lousy post
So, at last, George Osborne has just cancelled his appointment with eliminating our deficit, ie having a budget surplus, by 2020. I’m not sure if that means he has come to believe in textbook...
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Theresa May’s agenda as UK’s Prime Minister
I have no idea whether Theresa May really intends to ditch Osborneomics. George Osborne appears to have ditched it, so it seems quite likely. Hopefully she will have got the message that ‘the markets’...
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Mental breakdown, rage, underclass, ‘pathetic loser’, psychopathy, copycat...
The latest ‘Islamic Terrorist’ outrage in Nice may well not have been. It remains to be seen. When a number of middle-class well-educated Arabs hijacked planes and perpetrated the 9/11 horror – that...
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Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
Just finished Homo Deus – A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari. It’s the most irritating book I have read for a very long time. Most especially, but not only, its first chapter. This is...
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Charlie Stross – one of our best home-grown SF writers – has brought me to restart blogging, just to keep a record of his recent posting on Brexit. I find his discourse highly credible, despite...
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