The rise in renting and how it hurts us all
Private renting is on the rise, but what are the knock-on effects for young people’s income, pensions and futures?
Tag: money
Osborne’s budget ‘surplus lock’ is a scam to encourage more borrowing from the City
George Osborne's proposed budget 'surplus lock' will commit future governments to running surpluses when the country is not in recession. Not only will it restrict future public spending, it will channel public money into City banks.
‘Let Them Eat Bingo’: 5 Things About #Budget2014
Here Aaron Bastani takes a quick look at today's budget. Little has changed from the growth model leading up to the crisis of 2008 he says and the budget is filled with assumptions and projections that are bordering on delusional.
“Money is a lie”: Bez and the morality of debt
If work if the religion of secular society then debt is its sin. For evidence look no further than early daytime television, and this telling exchange between a self-styled 'consumer champion' and the Happy Mondays' maracas man.
Do They Owe Us a Living? 7 Reasons the Universal Basic Income is Worth Fighting For.
The Universal Basic Income (UBI) – sometimes called the Unconditional Basic Income, Citizens’ Income or Social Wage – has in recent times become a focus of economic discussion across the political spectrum. While column inches in the Financial Times and The Economist have been racking up, academics such as Stuart White have been articulating how […]