Tag: finance

‘You find me fallen back for a spring, and I have every reason to believe that a vigorous leap will shortly be the result’. Even when we are rich in time and capacity for thought and feeling, why do we tend to be so miserly with it?

February 9, 2025

Budgets are, you might think, something business corporations or Governments have. In both cases they balance real or expected (or predicted) income or revenue against real or expected (or predicted) expenditure in order to be able to plan to meet their goals whilst remaining fiscally in the balance, over at least an acceptable period of … More ‘You find me fallen back for a spring, and I have every reason to believe that a vigorous leap will shortly be the result’. Even when we are rich in time and capacity for thought and feeling, why do we tend to be so miserly with it?

‘Wealtherty’ : a new concept helps us to understand why poverty persists in the wake of economic growth, and why a Labour government should not silently accept trickle-down economics.

January 12, 2025

It was okay once for Labour MPs to laugh at Liz Truss’ belief that stimulating production through decreasing barriers to the rich getting really and relatively richer benefited the relarively poor. Wealth, Truss insists, trickles down the economic structure – increasing private wealth increases the wealth of all and reduces the problem of scarcity of … More ‘Wealtherty’ : a new concept helps us to understand why poverty persists in the wake of economic growth, and why a Labour government should not silently accept trickle-down economics.

Liz Truss called demands for ‘regulation’ of the ‘free market’ an anti-growth alliance’. That politics of despair for any environmental and socially just action is now embodied in Keir Starmer.

December 28, 2024

Green objectives are only one of the many ways in which Labour asks decency and regulated advance to lie down in front of the Juggernaut of Economic Growth. We need a new voice even for the supposed notion of a ‘centre’ left, for this is the bullying capitalist state of the nineteenth century resurrected. Meanwhile … More Liz Truss called demands for ‘regulation’ of the ‘free market’ an anti-growth alliance’. That politics of despair for any environmental and socially just action is now embodied in Keir Starmer.