Since Reeves hasn't a clue how to build a railway, we can dismiss the announcement as empty words
Read More »Broken by design
Like so many of the crises gathering over our heads, the coming currency reset will only happen after a profound crash.
Read More »Debt slavery
The biggest neoliberal trick was to persuade governments to hand control of their currencies to the banks.
Read More »Thermodynamic drag
There is an unacknowledged process of infrastructure repair triaging at work
Read More »Time to stop digging
It is difficult to see a way out for a UK government that insists on pursuing failed neoliberal monetary policies
Read More »If only we’d read Soddy
The economics of every era is a plausible myth… persuasive, common sensical, and wrong
Read More »Only the timescale is uncertain
The UK government is about to commit monetary seppuku
Read More »So, what now?
There is a word that sums up the trends now emerging in the UK… stagflation.
Read More »A victim of its own success
We find ourselves in the early stages of a new Age of Shortages
Read More »Someone else’s job, someone else’s problem
One reason why we are at increasing risk from crumbling infrastructure is that maintenance is not really in anyone’s job description.
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