Category: Economics

  • Unemployment Benefit: Getting Things Into Perspective

    Unemployment Benefit: Getting Things Into Perspective

    If you ask people what they think the biggest problem facing this country is you quite often get one of two answers. Either it is […]

  • What Is Wrong With Austerity In One Graph

    What Is Wrong With Austerity In One Graph

    I think that this one graph shows what is wrong with austerity. The deficit is not just about government income – it is about the […]

  • Election Debate – Debt

    Election Debate – Debt

    I had just gathered a few graphics and was about to write this post when I was alerted to a post by Simon Wren-Lewis1 which […]

  • The Equality Trust Wealth Tracker 2014

    The Equality Trust Wealth Tracker 2014

    http://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/sites/default/files/TET%20Wealth%20Report%202014.pdf

  • Debt

    Debt

    A talk by David Graeber on his book ‘Debt the first 5000 years’ (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Debt-The-First-000-Years/dp/1933633867).

  • Big Society – CUT

    Big Society – CUT

    Suffolk Association of Voluntary Organisations – cut 10% Supports Suffolk’s voluntary and community sector. Local authority funding cut: £5,695.62. Relate – cut 10% Advice to […]

  • Slavery Returns

    Slavery Returns

    Finding cheap labour with little or no employment rights does not just cut the wages bill for corporation it also acts as a downward pressure […]