All posts by Meghnad Desai

Beware central bankers on monetarist war path

Beware central bankers on monetarist war path

Lesson of Kondratieff: short-run policy changes may worsen crisis ...
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Power and delusion: Cummings, the cook and Carrie

Power and delusion: Cummings, the cook and Carrie

Johnson’s episodes bring repercussions for the US and Scotland ...
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Why Boris Johnson needs a new home

Why Boris Johnson needs a new home

Controversy or not, it’s time Britain found a decent prime minister’s residence ...
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Biden borrows from Eisenhower’s playbook

Biden borrows from Eisenhower’s playbook

Proposed infrastructure programme can transform US economy ...
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Sunak should hold fire on tax increases

Sunak should hold fire on tax increases

Welfare should be main priority in the UK Spring Budget ...
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Outlook 2021: Why the era of low inflation could last for 50 years

Outlook 2021: Why the era of low inflation could last for 50 years

Many assumptions, not just the link between government borrowing and inflation, no longer apply ...
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The UK loses as Labour fails to get its act together

The UK loses as Labour fails to get its act together

I quit the party because of Labour’s continuing anti-Semitism blight ...
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Will America’s decline be graceful?

Will America’s decline be graceful?

The US needs infrastructure – but is unlikely to get it ...
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America first collides with Decline and fall

America first collides with Decline and fall

How all-commanding republic turned into frightened empire ...
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Rethinking debt ratios

Rethinking debt ratios

The new shape of the global economy ...
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Trump the polariser intensifies questions on Biden

Trump the polariser intensifies questions on Biden

Foreign crisis may rescue president seeking global withdrawal ...
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Too early to write off president who never learnt the rules

Too early to write off president who never learnt the rules

World catches up with Trump’s insouciance on debt ...
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