Mike Norman Economics

If you want a lesson in how not to deliver healthcare, look at the broken American healthcare system. But since Brexit and talk of a US trade deal, American corporations and insurance companies have had their eye on one of the greatest British social achievements: The NHS. Host Ross Ashcroft is joined by NHS doctor and campaigner Dr. Bob Gill to discuss his recent documentary exposé on the stealth privatisation of the NHS. [embedded content]

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An excellent podcast by John T Harvey. He seems to have exactly the same political and economic views as me, and his host does too. And guess what, he's English, a London boy, like me, and he was born in Edgware, about 14 miles from where I was born, in Deacon Street, Southwark, and we're about the same age too. But we have something else in common as well, we both gave ourselves tinnitus listening to loud rock music. Damn! He explains where the free market prevails, and where public...

This has become the m.o. of corporate media. It's progressed beyond propaganda to gaslighting."Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?"Tax Research UKAre we all being gaslighted by the government?Richard Murphy | Professor of Practice in International Political Economy at City University, London; Director of Tax Research UK; non-executive director of Cambridge Econometrics, and a member of the Progressive Economy Forum

Islam "the biggest disease to have hit our country in the last hundred years" has become a Muslim in a shock conversion.  Joram van Klaveren was an MP from 2010 until 2017 for the far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) led by anti-Islam and anti-immigration firebrand Geert Wilders. Mr van Klaveren once fiercely advocated Mr Wilders' policies of banning the Koran and closing down mosques.  However, he has now said that he discovered out he had more in common with Islam than he initially...

Biologists are one up on the quantum physicists at the moment. Quantum computers have to be near absolute zero to work properly, but plants can utilise quantum mechanics at normal temperatures. [embedded content]

Stephanie Kelton, among others.Project SyndicateWho's Afraid of Fiscal Policy?

Stony Brook University economist Stephanie Kelton is a proponent of something called modern monetary theory (MMT), a new school of economics that argues that as long as a country is in charge of issuing its own sovereign currency, it can't "run out of money." According to MMT, if Greece were still using its own currency, the drachma, instead of the euro, then it could have printed more money to pay off its debts, especially if inflation was low to begin with. Instead, as part of the...

The report’s authors, David Mackie and Jessica Murray, said that deaths, immigration and conflicts would only rise as the planet heated and water supplies dwindled, while famines would increase and species would be wiped out. “We cannot rule out catastrophic outcomes where human life as we know it is threatened,” they said. They added that carbon emissions “will continue to affect the climate for centuries to come. The Times Fossil fuel funder JP Morgan warns of climate threat

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