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of England’s failure to respond effectively to the worst inflation in four decades underscores the need to abandon the outdated notion that fiscal and monetary policy can be kept separate.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.
Economics
Bill Mitchell: The last thing policy makers should be thinking about right now is creating a recession
Policy makers should ignore the noise from the financial markets and decline to ratify their gambling. They should be patient and let the supply side constraints ease as the pandemic eases. Their attention should be […]
Geopolitics
The Electronic Intifada: Settler violence hits record level
Jewish settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank has reached record levels. October was on track to be “the most violent month” since UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestine refugees, began documenting settler […]
EU politics
Lily Lynch – The EU’s American Queen
Some much needed critique of Ursula Von Der Leyen’s centralisation of geopolitical power in Europe. In ‘UnHerd’. Read the article HERE.
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