How bad will Trussonomics be?

13th September 2022 shoreditchadmin2 0

The economic project of the Truss government overall has no prospects at all of meeting its stated aim of increasing the trend rate of growth in the economy.
The sole important obstacle to severe further damage to living standards, public services and wider society that are central to the project is the resistance being mounted by many trade unions and their members.

Why Sunak and Biden are not Keynes, Corbyn or McDonnell

25th March 2021 shoreditchadmin2 0

Austerity measures are integral to the current economic policies of the US and UK. They amount to an all-round attack on wages and the social wage while there is a temporary boost to demand. That is why it is extremely foolish and misleading to compare them to the policies of Corbyn, McDonnell or Keynes.