Robert Skidelsky: How austerity broke Britain – and how we can recover

Politics is dominated by a “lumpen intelligentsia”: “earnest types who enthuse about ideas, simplify them and believe fervently that their crude and wholesale application will solve complex social problems.” Read here  

Bill Mitchell provides a analysis very different from the mainstream discourse. Read here

It is quite astonishing: Viktor Orbán’s heyday in Hungary began when, following the end of massive currency speculation (carry trades) that had massively overvalued the Hungarian forint, the forint plummeted and left many homeowners who […]