The Bank of England’s forecast that it will make cumulative losses of more than £100 billion by the end of the decade through the Asset Purchase…
The Bank of England’s forecast that it will make cumulative losses of more than £100 billion by the end of the decade through the Asset Purchase…
“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…
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…
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…