Economist Steve Keen talks to Phil Dobbie about the failings of the neoclassical economics and how i
There’s been a lot of talk lately about de-dollarisation. In other words, global investors are parki
There was an article in The Economist last week, shared widely in press around the globe, about the
There’s an irony that the UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves has imposed an inheritance tax on farmers, whi
Bill Gates has predicted that within 10 years we’ll be working a two-day week, thanks to advances in
There are challenges that the insurance industry faces, even though it can look like a licence to pr
The pandemic killed 200 thousand people in the UK. Are we ready for the next time? Experts reckon wi
Economists seem conditioned to think that we need to suffer before an economy can get back on track.
It’s clear to just about everyone that we won’t reach the climate targets set out in the Paris agree
A key policy area of Modern Monetary Theory is the idea of a job guarantee. There might be a li
Why is it, that whilst there are an increasing number of billionaires on the planet, the rest of us
The standard excuse for why states fail is the rampant printing of money. That certainly doesn’
In 1944, at Bretton Woods, 44 countries agreed to make the US dollar the world's reserve currency. T
It’s clear that President Trump lied to the American people about his reciprocal tariffs. Many of th
It’s often the easy excuse on how to fix the problems of wealth inequality - just tax the rich more.
It’s likely that many countries around the world will face import tariffs in retaliation for imposin
Are we kidding ourselves when we talk about an energy transition? Sure, we are using more renewables
Donald Trump is doing everything he can think off to improve the US economy. Tariffs, cutting govern
In a recent podcast Phil suggested that bringing manufacturing home to America won’t necessarily cre
Donald Trump, as the world’s highest profile climate change denier, has famously said, repeatedly, t
Reciprocal tariffs could be coming to every OECD country if we believe everything Donald Trump says.
