Hilary and I just got back from Northern Ireland where we spent the week with family and close friends. While we were driving up to the north coast with the children Hilary let out a howl like a wounded animal. “No! David Graeber is dead.” She had been on Twitter and come across the terrible news from his wife – love and collaborator, artist Nika Dubrovsky. I swerved, I disbelieved, I hoped it was all wrong as I gripped the wheel, wondering what had happened.
Read MoreWe're seeing at the moment a simultaneous global health crisis and global economic crisis. And really, in terms of where we're focused, the intersection between debt and finance and poverty, the real impacts of that crisis, we don't think have actually fully been felt yet. They're just starting really to be set in motion. And we actually seen that much worse impacts are on the horizon, both in terms of personal debt in the UK, but also the global South debt situation for poor countries.
Read More“Normal is just slow death.. we could have something different - something better. We can take this weird hiatus to dream as dangerously as possible."
Read MoreWhat's happening is, I don't know if there's a word for it, because it's more than momentous, really, it is extraordinary. I have to say that I've always prided myself on my predictive qualities, but I did not predict a pandemic, and I hadn't really thought about pandemics enough.
Read MoreFinance and credit should be playing a role in which they are facilitating and enabling economic activity. Not strangling it or drowning it out with their own claims.
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