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Latest:
Lazy PIGS: Decyphering the Euro Blame Game (8 Dec 2011)

Other Worldly Affairs

Breaking News: The working class caused the Italian Crisis (10 Nov 2011)
Insurrection in North Africa: Looking Ahead (7 Feb 2011)
The G20 and the Decline of the West (25 June 2010)

Economic Policy

A UK Recovery Programme: Go Keynesian (17/24 Nov 2011)
Mean, Median and Mode of Impoverishment (10 October 2011)
Occupy Wall Street: Why bother the bankers? (7 October 2011)
The World Bank-IMF meetings: How the mighty have fallen (2 October 2011)
The Cost of Catastrophes, Natural and Unnatural (1 September 2011)
How to Calculate the Deficit: Can't anyone in Congress count (15 August 2011)
The Size of the US Debt: Are the Rating Agencies Fools or Knaves? (11 August 2011)
Politicians delivering on their promises: UK economy declines (27 July 2011)
Fear of Inflation (30 June 2011)
Public Expending Saved the UK Economy (27 May 2011)
There are  Progressive Economists (20 May 2011)
Economists against Democracy (15 May 2011)
UK Economy 1st quarter 2011: Decline before fall (9 May 2011)
Unemployment: Too much regulation? (23 March 2011)
Is George Osborne the economic anti-Christ? (23 March 2011)
Continuing Madness of Chancellor George (28 Jan 2011)
Public Expenditure and the Affordability Fallacy (21 Dec 2010)
Crashes and Bailouts, Confusion and Lies (1 Nov 2010)
Chronic Deficit Disorder (5 Oct 2010)
Stimulating Ideology (6 Sept 2010)
One Big Dip and we are in it (14 Aug 2010)
Growth and Deficits (10 July 2010)
In Praise of Protection (11 June 2010)
No More Money and other economic illiteracies(26 May 2010)

Social Policy

Invest in your child's education (6 Dec 2010)
Pension Reform: A modest proposal (22 Nov 2010)
Crime Wave in the House of Commons (27 Oct 2010)
Democratic Control over Capital (20 July 2010)
The Banks and what to do about them (17 June)
Personifying Markets (3 June 2010)

Politically Motivated

Obama and Weimar: "History doesn't repeat but it can rhyme"
"America": Consumerism and the End of Citizenship (11 May 2011)
In Praise of Populism (7 March 2011)
Showdown in Wisconsin (1 March 2011)
Ed and the Pawnshop: Have I missed something? (29 Sept 2010)
Sticking to the Unions (21 Sept 2010)

Seriously Silly

Right in the Muddle with the Clegger (16 March 2011)
1932 Nobel Prize in Economics to Jean-Baptiste Say (17 Oct 2010) )

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