On Friday January 13, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen wrote to Congress that the U.S. government will hit its borrowing limit on January 19, forcing the new Congress…
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Most of us believe that the present recession will end. They always have done in the past. It will be a longer-than-usual process. Which means…
Whether you are an issue specific campaigner, a community or political activist or just a concerned citizen, it is becoming every clearer the enormity of…
I have suggested that no plan to address the current economic crisis that I have seen is good enough. In that case, I think I…
In ancient Mesopotamia, it was called a jubilee. When debts at interest grew too high to be repaid, the slate was wiped clean. Debts were…
The recent Guardian editorial about the looming energy cost crisis is correct to put centre stage a massive home energy efficiency programme to both cut…
The Guardian’s Business Green editor, James Murray, was correct that to undermine the claims of the pro-fossil fuel Net Zero Scrutiny Group in Parliament, it…
One of the great social and cultural critics of the last century, Ivan Illich, died 18 years ago now – and his teaching is largely…
Keir Starmer is riding high, anyway according to the Guardian. But as it becomes increasingly clear as he tries – and succeeds – in appearing…
Has monetary policy reached the end of the road? That is certainly an impression one is justified having reached following Mr Draghi’s press conference where…
Two years ago, we launched Radix with our first paper focused on the Bank of England’s quantitative easing programme. The core questions we raised in that paper…
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…