The Bank of England Should Stop Broadcasting the Views of a Comfortable Financial Elite
A “put foot in mouth and chew” episode from Bank of England chief economist Andy Haldane.
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Is There Really a Problem with Left Wing Extremism in the UK, or Is the Government Seeking Excuses to Suppress Fair Protest?
Governments on both sides of the pond are in “never let a crisis go to waste” mode. Aggression by the right is cause to stomp on a weak left.
Read more...Michael Hudson – Changes in Super Imperialism
Michael Hudson recaps his classic Super Imperalism and extends it to the 21st century struggle for dominance among the US, China, and Russia.
Read more...Negative Interest Rates Are Coming, but There Is No Chance That They Will Work
Negative interest rates: a bad idea that some central banks still can’t resist.
Read more...The Double Irony of the New UK-EU Trade Relationship
The Trade and Cooperation Agreement signed between the European Union and the United Kingdom goes against six decades of UK efforts to avoid being economically disadvantaged in Europe.
Read more...Brexit: Wheels Coming Off
Brexit pains are becoming more and more evident.
Read more...Let Them Eat Cake: COVID and Food Donations
The pandemic has reduced food security and hunger is widening. Food donations are often vulnerable to a Marie Antoinette mindset.
Read more...Cash in the Time of Covid: Down But Not Out
Physical cash should still have an important — albeit diminished — role to play in the economy of the future.
Read more...2021 Will Be Volatile
Richard Murphy’s 2021 forecast.
Read more...Quick Notes on the Brexit Deal
Brexit: an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is.
Read more...UK’s Covid and Brexit Siege
Fog on the Covid and Brexit fronts.
Read more...Controversial ‘Spy Tech’ Firm Palantir Lands £23m NHS Data Deal
Exclusive: UK government sneaks through new NHS COVID data contract, despite legal challenges.
Read more...Brexit Event Horizon and Covid Mutation Deliver Lumps of Coal to UK for Christmas
“It’s always darkest before things go completely black.” That looks like a fit for Brexit.
Read more...Brexit: End of the Line
Even with the EU giving as much Brexit time as it can, December 31 is coming.
Read more...Brexit: Too Late for Fudge?
The options for extending the Brexit runway don’t look promising.
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