Funding the Future

Labour ministers admit that Downing Street is so controlling that they can do nothing to manage the country. How long can it last in that case?

Who is exploiting us? Large companies, banks, and landlords are, and not the people our politicians love to blame.

Delve into the critique of neoliberalism, where myths and falsehoods shape economic policy for 45 years. Discover the absurdity of stable consumer preferences and how these unrealistic assumptions permeate neoclassical economics. Analyze the flawed belief in human rationality and equilibrium, pushing for a reevaluation of traditional economic principles. The discussion also highlights the dangers of minimal government intervention, illustrating how neoliberal beliefs neglect pressing societal needs and exacerbate global disparities.

The world has national debt of more than $100 trillion - and the income from that goes to the world's wealthiest people more than anyone else.  

Young people, most especially, are struggling to find reasons for hope in the world neoliberal politics has created, and who can blame them?

Labour's been knocked for six. The Tories face oblivion. And Reform are threatening politics as we know it. Did Thursday represent a political earthquake?

Despite the madness of Trump, the continuing reality of tariffs and an unsurprising fall in US GDP, stock markets have recovered their losses. This makes no sense at all. What is happening?

Carney and Starmer are technocrats - stuck in the middle without ever realising there are clowns to the right of them, and no jokers, or anything else, to their left.   

Is the idea of central bank independence all a game of smoke and mirrors designed to funnel money in the direction of the City of London? It's a question that has to be asked. 

Issuing the world's reserve currency gives a country the advantage of not having to, in effect, pay for many of its imports. Trump has never understood that.