Showing posts with label national debt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label national debt. Show all posts
22 February 2011

Who Bankrupted the Country?

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Richard Lawson has an excellent post using Office for National Statistics data to make it quite clear who is responsible for the national d...
9 January 2011

The Zen Road to Affluence?

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Finding that there is more to economic life than growth is not news to many readers of this blog, but finding that this lesson is being prom...
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22 October 2010

Debt is a Feminist Issue

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The gendered nature of the globalised capitalist economy is evident at many different levels. Empirical studies of women at the top of finan...
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14 June 2010

Time to Create the Renten-Euro?

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Why do currencies fail? If you did not know any better you would assume it was because the people in the countries supporting them became la...
7 June 2010

A Brief Word, Mr Cameron

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The class war has been launched, and not by the Labour Party. Cameron's speech today sets the scene for a principled stand in favour of ...
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1 April 2010

Lies, Damned Lies, and Economic Statistics

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The Chancellors debate was even more disappointing that I had anticipated. Perhaps I should be thankful that we were in the middle of a digi...
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26 March 2010

Who is rating whom?

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What exactly are the credit-rating agencies up to? I've been intrigued by the debates about who in the world economy is really behaving ...
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6 February 2010

Markets Beware Greeks Bearing Gilts

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As Greece stumbles its way towards the humiliation of an IMF loan it is the way this latest economic tragedy is being reported that causes m...
24 December 2009

New Labour; New Redistribution

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In an era when investigative journalism is a nostalgic memory and even the best political parties worry more about how they can present a po...
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5 August 2009

Time To Declare the Jubilee

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As we stagger on through the summer with our ball-and-chain of impossible debt it appears that the accepted view amongst commentators is tha...
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22 May 2009

One Day All Money Will be Created this Way

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In an earlier post I questioned what might be the limitation on the policy agreement between the Bank of England and the UK Debt Management ...
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7 May 2009

Gilty Secrets of the Treasury

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For those whose interest in what the hell the government is up to with our monetary policy continues, I offer the Debt and Reserves (as if!)...
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29 April 2009

Would you buy a used economy . . .?

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I am faintly tempted to make some sort of connection between the budget and the scrappage scheme, which might get as far as a joke if it wer...
24 April 2009

Busted Budget

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This has been an extraordinary budget season. Our economic destiny for the next 50 years is being changed and, because of the way the red, y...
21 January 2009

Starting to Feel Queasey

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There is considerable discussion in green circles these days about whether we should support the nationalisation of the banks. We need to be...
17 January 2009

No, no, no

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Margaret Thatcher was not a politician whose reputation was built on her facility to produce a well-turned phrase. She was famous for employ...
24 November 2008

Ooh, give me some more pain, darling

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I enjoy discussing a conspiracy theory over a pint as much as the next person and, given the shallow and irrelevant nature of most media cha...
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22 November 2008

Gordon is Not a Moron

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On Monday Alastair Darling will announce his plans for borrowing. He will be quite explicit in his hypocrisy. All the ideological ranting we...
19 September 2008

One law for the rich

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There is so much to learn from the present tumult on world financial markets - make sure that you are saying clearly what you know and think...
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17 May 2008

Time to do the Maths

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The last estimate for the amount of public money going to Northern Rock was £50bn. For that price we've bought ourselves a bankrupt bank...
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