Insurance, the canary for climate change
There are challenges that the insurance industry faces, even though it can look like a licence to print money, Since the Big Bang of the nineties, when deregulation allowed the industry to flourish, i...
4 Juni 202540min
Are we ready for the next pandemic?
The pandemic killed 200 thousand people in the UK. Are we ready for the next time? Experts reckon will be even less prepared should we see another pandemic in the near future. Prof Tom Koch from the U...
28 Maj 202542min
Can governments spend their way out of a slowdown?
Economists seem conditioned to think that we need to suffer before an economy can get back on track. They argue an economy can’t grow if there is a large amount of accrued government debt. That the ...
22 Maj 202542min
Climate Change. The need for a reset.
It’s clear to just about everyone that we won’t reach the climate targets set out in the Paris agreement. It was a pipe dream even before President Trump v2.0 came along. The various COP summits, whi...
14 Maj 202538min
Jobs for all. Is it a false utopia?
A key policy area of Modern Monetary Theory is the idea of a job guarantee. There might be a limit to available resources, but the labour force should always be employed. It helps the economy and it’s...
7 Maj 202542min
Why we are getting poorer (with Cahal Moran)
Why is it, that whilst there are an increasing number of billionaires on the planet, the rest of us are no better than we were decades ago? Young people can’t get on the housing ladder, there’s an inc...
30 Apr 202547min
Why nation states fail?
The standard excuse for why states fail is the rampant printing of money. That certainly doesn’t help, but it’s often the symptom not the cause. In most cases states fail simply because the government...
22 Apr 202539min
Trump is half way to Keynes’s answer to deficits
In 1944, at Bretton Woods, 44 countries agreed to make the US dollar the world's reserve currency. This decision inflated the dollar's value, making American exports expensive and imports cheaper. Don...
16 Apr 202542min
