Please, don’t less this be the future for a Britain now signed up to less liberal immigration policies. From a story about how an anti-immigration backlash plays out in Japan: Families have been broken apart as parents of children born in Japan have been detained and deported. People who seemed to qualify for a special [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Japan’
18 Jan
The Economist and Martin Wolf go head to head . . .
Will China end up going the same way as Japan?
3 Nov
If you want to compare Japan to Keynesian-future Britain . . .
If you want to experiment with the consequences of failing to achieve growth, download my spreadsheet. All in all, don’t bet on growing through devaluation.
19 Oct
Seriously, the CBI is trying to drive us into another Depression
The CBI’s call to cut £120bn off government spending by 2015-16 (even cumulatively) is the worst piece of economic advice to be offered all year, against some pretty strong competition from The Right hon. G Osborne.
16 Oct
Warning to Osborne: this ain’t ever happened before . . .
When you look at historic and cross-country figures, the opportunities for export-led and investment-led growth look fairly bleak.
28 Sep
How cutting the deficit can increase the deficit
If things get really bad, cutting back may make it worse. Depression economics with all the figures this time. And allow the central bank to credibly pursue reflation rather than fussing about inflation
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