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Steve Keen on the housing crisis

When all that’s left is the rentier economy

Bonds and the bond markets

The Quantum Essays: You can try it if you like, but you’d far better notter

It is time we got on with the process of change

We need a Basic British Bank

Economcs questions: the John Rawls question

Nationalism – good or bad?

Starmer’s finally found what he’s good at

Cathedrals, cannons and Cromwell: lessons in power

Ireland says no to neoliberalism

Why the Tories deserve the fate they are suffering.

We are in a fight for democracy

A day on, Caerphilly is still giving me hope

Trump’s marching East

Economic myths: your opinion is sought

Ireland is moving against neoliberalism

Economic questions: The E F Schumacher question

Caerphilly brings hope

The moral case for tax

The great British energy rip-off is now killing our green energy hopes – and the chance of cheaper electricity

Why does the government tackle benefit fraud and ignore tax cheats? Could it be prejudice?

Economic questions: the Joseph Schumpeter question

Talking with Zach Polanski

Why 2% inflation?

The Scottish Currency Group conference

Fools, the ability to think, and crashes

Inflation: there’s nothing to say except the big question no one wants to ask

Andrew Windsor, the media, and the wrong question

What is the UK’s real debt crisis?

Prince Andrew: still too privileged?

There will be a lot of nonsense talked about government borrowing today

The working day

Bonds

As a government, Labour has not added an iota of value to the UK

Not bad

Why most tax rises now would be economic madness

English A-level? For migrants? Why?

What I mean by political economy

Solution-foscused thinking

Blurring boundaries

Government debt is private wealth, so why do people want to get rid of it?

Question Time, and more

The difficulty of building political economic narratives based on metaphors

The Chinese have worked it out: stablecoins are the privatisation of money

Why do I still do this at 67?

Rachel Reeves’ nasty prejudice is coming into play

Quantum(ish) Essay: What if Darwin was wrong? The case for the survival of the wisest

It’s time for democracy to topple those who would be king

When will the Trump bubble burst?

Bitcoin is falling again

Quantum economics from the perspective of quantum biology: Coupling and Uncoupling

What do you do when the target’s wrong?

Labour’s shame and Tory delusion: how mediocrity took power

People are consigning Labour and the Tories to history

Radio 5 this morning

Quantum economics from the perspective of quantum biology: The circuit of value and its pathologies

Not on the Budget bingo card

We could have avoided a crash

Britain’s housing market is a giant Ponzi scheme

What is the harm of trying?

The IMNF can’t join the dots between interest rates and inflation

Reeves really is doing her best to fail

Quantum economics from the perspective of quantum biology: Labour, value and reflection

The IMF is now saying it’s time to worry

Crypto or AI — which bubble bursts first?

Economic myths: perfect competition

Climate change is lapping at your door

Why are both the UK’s major political parties running out of talent?

More on impact

Farage, crypto and failure

Quantum economics from the perspective of quantum biology: the prologue

Neoliberalism is dying. What comes next?

Economic myths: homo economicus

Markets are shrugging their shoulders

Measuring impact

Why is Labour hanging our universities out to dry?

Colonisation, 2025 style

Protest is democracy in motion, not a crime

How big might the crash be?

Is the crash happening?

On birdwatching

Economic questions: the Hyman Minsky question

The Quantum Essays: The quantum difference between work and speculation

Where I still find hope for democracy in the UK

Can the global economy survive another shock?

Thiel and the Antichrist

Who will pay to rebuild Gaza?

The Quantum Essays: Where are the checks on entropy in the UK system now?

The inequality lie

Christianists

The Quantum Essays: Where are the checks on entropy in the US system now?

If Rachel Reeves must raise taxes, the basic rate of income tax is the worst place to start

Nigel Farage’s declaration of war on teachers is a war on compassion, empathy and kindness

Talking the language of courage

Water privatisation has failed: now it is time to move on

Japan is teaching us the lesson that without serious levels of inward migration we’re going to be in deep trouble

If Labour will pay more for drugs but not increase funds for the NHS, who do they expect to take the pain?

Is it now game over for the Tories?

Right wing equivalents to the fascists of the thirties are back on the march

What if the UK admitted it uses MMT and turned that into its superpower?

Strong, durable, and everlasting peace?

Looking for economic reality to set in

The Tory party is now proposing tyranny

The Quantum Essays: Democracy as negentropy: why fascism is the politics of death

Drunk by design: how cities are forcing young people to drink

Inequality is not falling

Has AI broken the job market?

Why we need to ask ‘Why do people feel the need to protest?’

Crypto’s murky core — and why the bubble must burst

What would Keynes, Galbraith and Beveridge say now?

Progress towards a police state

What happens when £47 billion disappears from Britain’s economy?

Tory plans to cut aid are racism in action

The neoliberal centre cannot hold

Are the Tories’ policies racist?

How long is it before promoting Scottish, Welsh and Irish independence is deemed to be a terrorist action?

The Quantum Essays: The meaning of life, negentropy, and the politics of staying alive

Reform is failing

Are Reform’s policies racist?

The government should stop wasting time on gesture politics and deliver evenhandedness instead

Britain is not in the doghouse

New migrants

Using ChatGPT and other AI prompts to support campaigning

Jews are divided by Netanyahu and the actions of Israel

Whatever became of the Affluent Society?

The Quantum Essays: Schrödinger, entropy, equilibrium, and the lessons for society

Are the Tories facing oblivion?

Getting the message out there

What is fascism?

The Courageous State

The aftermath of the Manchester attack

American troops in US cities

The US is now a fascist state

The Greens plan to abolish interest payments on central bank reserve accounts

Let’s be clear: Starmer is a racist too

Economic questions: The J K Galbraith question

Will it be women who fight tyranny?

The Telegraph is right: Reeves should not increase taxes on lower and average income earners

Are politicians all the same, as people would have it?

Fascism, Trump, Reform, and the silencing of dissent

Farage vs Workers