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Positive Money and I have had an exchange of blog posts on FT’s Alphaville about their suggestions for what the successor to Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, should and should not do. I remain deeply opposed to … Continue reading →

Positive Money wrote a letter making representations about what Carney’s successor should do.  Here is my post about it on FT’s Alphaville blog.  If you haven’t come across my stuff before, there is a dump of my previous posts and … Continue reading →

Leading figures in Labour like Jess Phillips were out on social media today, with a call to arms to fight the reactionary tendencies represented by The Brexit Party, promising to oppose with progressivism. This is a difficult pitch for Labour.  … Continue reading →

The Liberal Democrat campaign slogan has come under fire.  I think it’s a great slogan. It weaves together different feelings of those against the project:  ‘oh for God’s sake make it stop this is turning out really badly’ [recall Jolyon … Continue reading →

Preliminaries. This post writes up a short thread on Twitter on memetics and economics.  One that tells the story of a ‘paper’ I wrote perhaps 15 years ago or more, now, with the same title as this post, and sent … Continue reading →

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Link here.  I wrote it before the New Year, so ‘March of this year’ referring to the Barry Gardiner tapegate is now a typo, and I’m on it.

Yesterday, Jerome Powell said, following the Fed’s decision to raise its policy rate:  “political considerations play no role whatsoever in our discussions”. In some important senses, this cannot or at least should not be true. Trump has on several occasions … Continue reading →

There are still multiple possible outcomes of the ongoing Brexit process.  The UK could revoke our A50 notice to leave the European Union and remain members.  We could seek a Brexit In Name Only solution, retaining freedom of movement and … Continue reading →

A link to my New Statesman piece, a rejoinder to Mervyn King’s Bloomberg article encouraging the government to drop Theresa May’s deal before the nation ‘rages’.