One question that continually comes up when I do interviews is this: If governments are not financially constrained in their spending why do they issue debt?
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Bill Mitchell: Why do currency-issuing governments issue debt? – Part 1
Geopolitics
Médecins Sans Frontières: Proposal to designate UNRWA as a terrorist organisation an outrageous attack on humanitarian assistance
On 29 May, a bill aimed at designating the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) as a terrorist organisation passed a preliminary reading in Israel’s parliament, known […]
National Politics
The Ferret: IHRA definition of antisemitism rejected at Aberdeen University
Aberdeen University has rejected a “working definition” of antisemitism as recommended by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance for governments and organisations around the world to adopt. Read Here Image: QueenBarenziah
Austerity
Frances Coppola: The terrible price of austerity
Was Hitler the product of austerity? In her blog Frances Coppola asks if austerity played an important role in Hitler’s rise to power. She comes to the conclusion that it did and warns: “Learn from […]
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