Billions of dollars are being pumped into economies the world over to protect economies from COVID-19. Much of it comes in the form of government fiscal stimulus, funded through bond issuance. Some of it involves businesses taking up further debt themselves, through low interest loans. Nobody seems to be pursuing helicopter money and while there’s some dabbling on the idea of universal basic income in the US, the money is peanuts compared to average expenditure. In this special free podcast, Phil Dobbie asks Steve Keen whether enough is being done to facilitate a rapid economic recovery, and who will be the beneficiaries – the business sector or the finance sector?
Geopolitics
John Mearsheimer, Alexander Mercouris, Glenn Diesen: The West in Decline
A look at the developments around the war in Ukraine
Austerity
Elliot Kett: A New Film about Low Income Rural Britain
The Royal Society of Arts has put its finger on a misery too seldom recognised – the loneliness of the low-income farmer: farmers who can’t afford to eat the food they produce; families too poor […]
Economics
Richard Murphy – How Do We Pay For It?
The ‘killer’ question that any journalists thinks that they can ask a politician who is proposing any new initiative is ‘how are you going to pay for it?’ The assumption is that government lives in […]
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