Periodic ‘circuit breaker’ lockdowns, with renewed Treasury support, are the only way to suppress the virus and protect the economy, say group of leading economists.
When politics becomes the whims and mad schemes of a small minority that only listen to themselves, it needs to be called out - not normalised - by a non-partisan media.
Simon Wren-Lewis responds to ‘Whither Europe?’, authored by Yanis Varoufakis and James Galbraith. The European Monetary Union needs to be improved, not transformed, and it is this obsession with austerity that needs to change.
