The Bank of England’s failure to respond effectively to the worst inflation in four decades underscores the need to abandon the outdated notion that fiscal and monetary policy can be kept separate. If governments are to be held responsible for investment and employment, they should also control interest rates.
Finance
Thomas Frank: Trump’s enemy is not your friend: why we shouldn’t defend Amazon
Substitute Brexit and Remain and you have the same story. We let ourselves for emotional reasons and political laziness accept binary decisions. The world is not black and white or Manichean as the intellectuals call […]
Geopolitics
The Electronic Intifada: “Neutral” Switzerland cancels UN conference after Israeli pressure
Switzerland abruptly canceled a conference it was mandated to hold by the United Nations General Assembly on the rights of Palestinians under Israeli military occupation. The move this week came after pressure from Israel and […]
Climate Crisis
Jamie Maxwell: Mark Carney likes to talk green, but he’s just another agent of the status quo
The former Bank of England governor is finance adviser at COP26 and rumoured to be running for Canadian prime minister. But his new book is just a flutter of platitudes Read here
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