Economics
Bill Mitchell: British Labour Conference seems to be going well
British Labour Conference and the IMF are today’s topics. Read here
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Economics
Bill Mitchell: The Merkel failure
An excellent summarisation of what everyone knew, but few dared to say until Merkel was gone. Read here
Economics
Bill Mitchell – They never wrote about it, talked about it, and, did quite the opposite – yet they knew it all along!
During the GFC, a new phenomenon emerged – the ‘We knew it all along’ syndrome, which was characterised my several mainstream New Keynesian macroeconomists coming out and claiming that some of the insights provided by […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell: European growth positive but weak
Key Eurozone states are still lagging behind where they were before the pandemic. In some cases (Italy and Spain), they hadn’t even got back to pre-GFC levels of activity before the pandemic stuck. Read here
Economics
Bill Mitchell – The Bank of Goldman Sachs at Threadneedle Street
A good insight into the thinking of a central bank Read here
Economics
Bill Mitchell – Brexit is delivering better pay for British workers (on average)
Britain is going through turbulences adapting its economy after leaving the EU. These are developments well worth watching. Read here
Austerity
Bill Mitchell – Keynes on national self-sufficiency
One of the emerging discussions is what will the post-coronavirus world look like both within nations and across nations. There is a growing thread about the worries of increased state authoritarianism as governments have imposed […]
Austerity
Bill Mitchell: Tunisia is a classic example of the failed IMF/World Bank development model
The IMF and World Bank, destroyers of developing nations. Read here
Economics
Bill Mitchell: Has global trade peaked?
“I doubt, however, we have reached peak trade. There is massive potential in the poorer nations. Whether that will be realised is yet to be determined. And what impact climate change will have on the […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell – It is time we all moved on from the debt and deficit hysteria
The hypocrisy is ineffable. Those same journalists and politicians who care nothing about the destroyed planet our children will inherit cannot write and say enough about the debt – which need not even be debt […]