“Remember though, that earlier this year Bloomberg Economics estimated that Brexit was costing the UK economy £100bn a year in lost output. Reversing or ameliorating…
“Remember though, that earlier this year Bloomberg Economics estimated that Brexit was costing the UK economy £100bn a year in lost output. Reversing or ameliorating…
The debt ceiling crisis has again brought into focus the perennial gap between what the government spends and what it accumulates in taxes, and the…
There are those among us – me included – who so dislike technocracy and technocrats in general that we would probably opt for populism, almost…
Short sellers have made a killing in the recent banking crisis, scalping $14.3 billion from bank stock owners just in March of this year. Short sellers…
About 16 years ago, at the end of the Clone Town Britain campaign at the New Economics Foundation, I became interested in the whole business…
I have been uneasy for some time about current long-term green thinking. In Herefordshire and elsewhere. A recent article by Megan Selbert and William Rees.,…
Me: What is meant by “the alignment problem” in the public discourse on artificial intelligence? ChatGPT: The ‘alignment problem’ refers to the challenge of ensuring…
According to an article in American Banker called “SEC’s Gensler Directly Links Crypto and Bank Failures,” SEC Chair Gary Gensler has asked for more financial resources to…
To me, the progression of the cost of living crisis has felt like a slow process of being gradually gaslit. Is this normal? People used…
Too much money chasing too few goods – that is the classic explanation for inflation. But for some reason we tend always to worry about…
Holidays in my childhood were spent at my grandparents’ farm in Plain Grove, Pennsylvania, 35 miles from East Palestine, Ohio. My grandfather’s grandfather fought at…
In a 1965 press conference, the visionary General de Gaulle denounced the “exorbitant privilege of the dollar”. The American currency had indeed become by far…