Would a firm inheritance tax help reduce the rich poor gap? How something needs to be done before civil unrest reaches fever pitch.

Professor Steve Keen is a big supporter of Trump’s plan for the economy, but believes it’ll fail for one simple reason. The plan is accompanied by a determination to return the budget to surplus

Steve Keen and I agree on lots of things, but fall on either side of the Brexit camp. One of us believes Britain should have remained to fight EU bureaucracy from the inside, the other suggests the community is fundamentally flawed, along with the concept of free trade, and will collapse soon anyway.

Will the new President be good news for his country, particularly those struggling to find jobs in the rust belt of Middle America?

Reserve banks try desperately to remove boom and bust cycles. But are they on a hiding to nothing?

Is there a more stable method of determine exchange rates – that didn’t rely on the US dollar or the value of gold. Is it time to revisit Keyne’s thinking?

The start of the end of the Euro, the continued rise of the right, recession for Australia and a booming US economy thanks to Trump‘s spending program.

If Scrooge had behaved like he did he in the last few pages of A Christmas Carol, he would be bankrupt. But he wasn’t good for the economy beforehand, either.

We look at the state of banks around the world and economies teetering on the edge. If we are to face another global financial crisis, driven by bank collapses, how do the circumstances compare with 2007-8?