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Robert Skidelsky

How Much Debt is Too Much?

   LONDON – Is there a “safe” debt/income ratio for households or debt/GDP ratio for governments? In both cases, the answer is yes. And in both cases, it is impossible to say exactly what that ratio is. Nonetheless, this has become the most urgent macroeconomic question of the moment, owing not just to spiraling household and government debt since 2000, but also – and more important – to the excess concern that government debt is now eliciting. According to a 2015 report by the...

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Robert Skidelsky on Banks, Syria and Inequality

Robert Skidelsky is a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), an author, an historian and an Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at Warwick University. He's written extensively on John Maynard Keynes, his latest book being "Keynes: The Return of the Master". Here he discusses banks, British austerity, income inequality and the Syrian refugee crisis. If you want to keep up with all our content, be sure to subscribe! Don't forget to follow us on: Facebook:...

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