A new bill has been tabled in Parliament that mandates all civil servants, public officers, and State officers to use public healthcare facilities

Learning is the only thing the mind doesn’t burn out from...

Looking forward to this talk from UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose PhD candidate Josh Entsminger sharing his research on what we can learn from DARPA. Sign up below!

Mr. Keynes and Dr. Keen The Economic Livestream x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

📦 Can industrial policy work? Yes—the East Asian experience shows it can (at least partially). But its success rests on a key condition: labor control. 🇯🇵🇰🇷🇹🇼 Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan industrialized rapidly under authoritarian or semi-authoritarian regimes. Wages and

When Saddam Hussein's nephew buys a $50 million palace, we immediately recognize it as corruption. But when Nancy Pelosi buys a $50 million vineyard in Napa Valley, we think it's okay. That's called "brainwashing the public."

Capitalism keeps homelessness around as a warning to say, “Let us exploit you, or you’ll end up just like them.”

Is it appropriate for a former CBK Chairman, who previously oversaw the regulation of commercial banks, to join the board of one just 2 years after leaving office? Doesn't raise serious concerns about regulatory capture & the erosion of public trust in independent oversight?

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” — Lao Tzu

"I sometimes think the general public would know more about economics if the economists did not exist" - Francis Cripps

Labour pledged to halve government spending on consultants, yet it rose by £150m in their first year. #TheBigCon continues: without serious investment in public sector capacity and a mindset change to empower government delivery, departments will keep outsourcing core

🚨BREAKING: China has become the first country in the world to refuel a satellite in orbit.

Back in 2005, republicans hatched a backdoor scheme to privatize Social Security. I tore it apart in this paper. tools.bard.edu/wwwmedia/resou…

SBM Bank Kenya has introduced a flat fee of KES 20 for Pesalink transfers up to KES 1 million, undercutting its peers to offer the lowest rate in the market (compared to fees of up to KES 250 at its peers). Transfers between KES 1 and KES 1,000 are now completely free.

"Unless we understand what it is that leads to economic and financial instability, we cannot prescribe policy to modify or eliminate it." -Hyman Minsky

I just stumbled across this lecture I gave in 2016, outlining 4 different schools of thought when it comes to explaining business cycles. You might learn something! (Link next tweet.)

Stock buy backs are a form of fixed capital investment with a time delay. Dividends are cost to the bottom line of a firm and are lowered with buybacks, it's statically observable that a portion of profits are set aside for capital investment.

In China, the people's government controls the rich, the corporations and the banks, in the interest of the people. In the USA, the banks and corporations control the government and the people, in the interest of the rich.

American firms pursue profits; Chinese firms pursue market share. Why? James Burnham and John Kenneth Galbraith argued that the central conflict in industrial society was not between capital and labor, but between owners (bourgeoisie) and a rising managerial elite. Burnham