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Feige’s automated transaction tax – the simple answer?
Season 1 Episode 398
For a while now Dr Edgar Feige has been a proponent of an automated transactional tax. The idea is that we get rid of all taxes – income tax, sales t…
2 years, 4 months ago
Does immigration slow inflation?
Season 1 Episode 397
There’s been a lot of speculation lately about the role of immigration and its impact on inflation. Does a flood of foreign workers push down wages, …
2 years, 4 months ago
End of the Rising Sun
Season 1 Episode 396
The Bank of Japan has just lifted interest rates for the first time in 17 tears. The central bank has kept rates in negative territory in the mistake…
2 years, 4 months ago
The economics of babysitting
Season 1 Episode 395
One analogy that economists like to use is that of the Capitol Hill Babysitting cooperative in Washington DC in the 1970s. Government workers set-up …
2 years, 5 months ago
Hunt’s Budget Fantasyland
Season 1 Episode 394
The UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivered what is almost certainly his last budget, promising the usual stuff – more investment, more jobs, better publ…
2 years, 5 months ago
Selling bonds to punters shrinks the economy
Season 1 Episode 393
The UK Debt Office has started selling bonds to retail investors through the primary market Previously the only way you could buy government bonds wa…
2 years, 5 months ago
Steve Keen, the Musketeer
Season 1 Episode 392
Elon Musk has his fingers in many pies. Social media, space travel, internet access, AI. Even tunnel drilling. He’s grown from developing a modest se…
2 years, 5 months ago
Challenging American Exceptionalism
Season 1 Episode 391
The concept of American Exceptionalism has been talked about for decades, mainly by Americans. Now the term is back in vogue because the US has shown…
2 years, 6 months ago
Economic growth without more money?
Season 1 Episode 390
Rishi Sunak, like most politicians, is adamant that he can grow the economy by getting businesses to be more productive. But can businesses really gr…
2 years, 6 months ago
Banking on destruction
Season 1 Episode 389
Have central banks waited too long before dropping interest rates. Over the last week or so we’ve had Jerome Powell, the Governor of the Fed, saying …
2 years, 6 months ago