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Simon Wren-Lewis: Bemoaning the cost of national debt is missing the point – we must invest in the economy
A country that stops investing in public infrastructure will find everything it does becomes more difficult. Read here
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Bill Mitchell: Massive Eurozone infrastructure deficit requires urgent redress
“The latest – EIB Investment Report 2017/2018 – published last week by the European Investment Bank tells anyone who cares to take those Europhile Rose Coloured Glasses off for just a second how deep the failure of […]
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Simon Wren-Lewis: Austerity and mortality
We have posted a number of articles and links concerning how austerity kills. In this article Simon Wren-Lewis analyses this phnomena in the UK and other European nations Read here
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Larry Elliot: For the UK economy, this budget is its Suez moment
The British Conservative Party has proven what every critical economist has been saying for years. Now it has become clear for all to see that the Tories’ claim that they could cut the economy back […]
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Danny Dorling: Short Cuts
This is a further article dealing with the violence of austerity. Read here
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Richard Murphy – It’s time the Treasury listened to the National Audit Office when it comes to government debt
Austerity is based not only on bad economics, but lies as well. As Richard Murphy demonstrates in this article Britain’s debt burden is not nearly as great as the government claims, which is its principal […]
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Chris Dillow: THE POLITICS OF DEATH
In Germany there is an increasing practice by politicians and mainstream media to compare politics to a football match. Chris Dillow is right. For the elite it is a game. Stars come and go. One […]
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Aditya Chakrabortty: Austerity, not Brexit, has doomed the Tory party
While the mainstream press cannot publish enough articles about Brexit – most authors having no idea of what they are writing about – the true disaster in Britain is being ignored: austerity. That is because […]
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Chris Dillow: TORIES’ AUSTERITY DOUBLETHINK
The Tories have a problem. The political winds dictate that they retreat from fiscal austerity. But how can they do so without admitting that austerity was an error in the first place? On the Today […]
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Craig Mackay – You Need to Balance Your Own Budget but the Government Doesn’t and Shouldn’t.
The Tory obsession with reducing the deficit with a programme of accelerating austerity is causing increasing harm to the great majority of working people in the UK. By refusing to borrow to invest in infrastructure […]