Claire Connelly: What are taxes actually for?

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is seeking sweeping new powers over the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) through legislation that would grant him unilateral authority to dismiss and promote officers Read HERE Photo: Pivox/Creative Commons

Last week, the EU finance ministers (the ‘Eurogroup’) met (June 13, 2019) in Luxembourg as part of their regular schedule. There was a lot of talk in the lead-up to the meeting whether Emmanual Macron’s […]

As many mainstream macroeconomics try to reinvent themselves after their reputations were trashed during and in the aftermath of the GFC, some are still trying to stay relevant by recycling the usual trash about deficits, […]