Another Anglo-American debacle. This time worse than Iraq.

Hank Paulson, President George Bush’s Treasury Secretary,  launched a unilateral plan to save the western banking system last Sunday, then appealed to western governments to bail out their own banks.

‘Fair enough’ one might say.  After all,  the US’s staunchest and most compliant ally, Britain, actively colluded in the build-up of these massive, and now unpayable, Wall St. debts, and British banks will likely benefit from the bail-out.

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Keynes, inflation and the Green New Deal

Keynes prolfiled in Time Magazine, 1965Apologies in advance . This is a long post. I am getting feedback from those who have read the Green New Deal (GND) (which I co-authored) complaining that the Keynesian policies espoused therein will simply drive us back to the 1970s, to militant trades unionism and ‘stagflation’. Their concerns need a response.

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