It is more than 17 years now since, I gather, I coined the phrase ‘virtual currencies’. I know this because of Wikipedia which tells me…
It is more than 17 years now since, I gather, I coined the phrase ‘virtual currencies’. I know this because of Wikipedia which tells me…
This is cross-posted from the New Weather blog… There is a truism about fish, who are said not to wonder overmuch about the nature of…
Ten years ago, the financial system began its collapse before governments intervened to save it. Much of the subsequent legislation, regulation and angst has been…
Well, you have to, don’t you. There they are, inheritors of an economic tradition which suggests that they can only use interest rates to tweak…
So the government have decided to ban new diesel and petrol cars and vans from 2040. In the immortal words of John McEnroe: “You cannot…
Monetary systems have to address conflicting problems which make any design a compromise. A monetary system needs to make sure that the quantity of money…
The Brexit debate is moving on. The main issue at the moment is the shape and nature of any transitional deal. Our recent report has put forward…
I have been writing about some of the implications of the Southern Rail crisis on this blog because Radix is about political system change, and…
I was recently chatting to the chairman of a FTSE 100 company. I suggested that the UK economy reminded me of a failing company in…
Whenever we hear of another disaster or whistle blow, we wonder how or why it happened. Why didn’t anyone say something sooner? and if they…
Where are the best broadband services in the UK? Hands up anyone who guessed Hull. In 1904, “a quirk of history gave Hull and East…