Monthly Archives: October 2020

Funding government – tax, borrowing, or printing.

Posted on October 10, 2020 by neilbrown

If you’ve been following along you’ll know that I’ve justified (for myself) the intervention by the government into the affairs of the economy. Any such intervention will have a cost. The question for today is: how will these costs be … Continue reading →

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edlib ideas from elsewhere

Posted on October 1, 2020 by neilbrown

There have been a couple of articles on lwn.net (https://lwn.net/Articles/819452/ and https://lwn.net/Articles/832311/) about emacs and how it could be better, which have generated lots of discussion (a really valuable aspect of lwn.net). For some reason this encouraged me to explore … Continue reading →

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Managing an economy

Posted on October 1, 2020 by neilbrown

I wrote in a previous post that any functioning democracy must run the economy with a blend of the two extremes of socialism and capitalism – that ownership of property must, in some way, be shared between the individual citizen … Continue reading →

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