Youtube activity of "David McCulloch" (@davidmcculloch8490) on "Richard J Murphy" channel.
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David McCulloch
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"14 questions Keir Starmer needs to answer about growth"
"2024 was an extraordinary year"
"2024 was hard, exciting and worthwhile How was yours?"
"A cappuccino is the perfect metaphor for the mixed economy"
"A wealth tax might require that you report your wealth each year Do you really want that?"
"Advertising is designed to make you miserable"
"All I want for Christmas is a new political vision"
"Almost a quarter of young people are dissatisfied with their lives in the UK. Why is that?"
"Am I an extremist?"
"Am I far left?"
"Am I your problem, Kemi Badenoch?"
"Are drug companies putting profits ahead of curing people?"
"Are the UK’s politicians frightened to stand up to wealth?"
"Are the rich going to leave?"
"Big and small businesses are nothing like each other"
"Can democracy survive the amounts Musk can spend on politics?"
"Can there ever be taxpayer money?"
"Can we afford the welfare state?"
"Centre right parties enable fascists"
"DeepSeek is not just shaking up AI – it’s also shaking up US capitalism"
"Do the people who work in the City of London add value?"
"Do we really live in a world of take it or leave it?"
"Do we want the UK’s universities to go bust?"
"Do you care? That’s the political question for 2024"
"Does Inflation Matter in Modern Monetary Theory?"
"Does MMT say we can spend without limit?"
"Does Scotland need its own currency after independence?"
"Does Scotland need its own currency after independence?"
"Does Trump really understand government, or is he going to run it like a business?"
"Economic growth? Forget it."
"Economics can be defined as a noun and a verb – and right now they are very different"
"Economics for the person on the Mile End Road"
"Economics is not alchemy"
"Economists should learn to think"
"Elon Musk hasn’t got a clue how government is meant to work"
"Elon Musk says empathy is threatening civilisation. He’s wrong. He is that threat."
"Energy price rises are due to regulation that favours companies, not people"
"Every action has a reaction"
"Every action has a reaction"
"Far right politics remains the choice of a small number in society"
"Financial markets are melting down because of Trump. Will everything else follow soon?"
"Fire and flooding are making houses uninsurable Will this crash the housing market"
"Forget socialism, capitalism and any other ‘ism’ Meeting needs is our priority"
"Freeports are dangerous"
"GDP records everything but the things that really matter"
"Good businesses don’t maximise profits. They maximise happiness."
"Government surpluses don’t create cash piles waiting to be spent"
"Governments can’t have block holes, whatever ministers might say"
"Governments don’t borrow from financial markets"
"Growth has disappeared – so what is Rachel Reeves going to do now ?"
"Has Wes Streeting got the ability to be our Health Secretary?"
"Has the drive towards sustainability ended?"
"How are you going to pay for it?"
"How do tax havens work?"
"How late is too late?"
"How long will Labour's honeymoon last?"
"How many iPhones do we need?"
"I can't wait for the 5th of July"
"I do social media to change things"
"If ministers don’t believe in government it can’t work"
"If the government wants growth it should be taxing wealth"
"In 2025, we have to say yes to the power of the state"
"In political terms the opposite of hate is not love, but care"
"Inflation always goes away"
"Is Keir Starmer a worse Prime Minister than Liz Truss?"
"Is Labour planning to do PFI again?"
"Is Labour ready to govern?"
"Is Labour really short of money?"
"Is Ozempic a wonder drug?"
"Is Scotland next on Trump’s shopping list, after Greenland?"
"Is Trump mad or bad Or could it be both"
"Is democracy the best way of choosing those who govern us?"
"Is politics going to be brutal and unacceptable in 2025?"
"Is the state really as inefficient as people claim?"
"Is £90,000 a year a middle class income?"
"Isn’t it rational to be anxious in a world that’s failing us all?"
"It looks like Trump is MADA – Making America Dysfunctional Again"
"It's time to talk about fascism"
"It’s St Stephen’s day today and he was really very awkward"
"It’s not clear what political space the UK’s Tories now want to occupy"
"It’s time for Clinton, Bush, Obama and Biden to call Trump out"
"It’s time to bring the Bank of England back under government control"
"Jesus was an economic reformer – and isn’t that what today is all about?"
"Keir Starmer says he wants a bonfire of red tape?"
"Keir Starmer wants to increase wealth inequality"
"Keir Starmer wants to maximize wealth in the UK"
"Keir Starmer’s big mistake: confusing money with capital?"
"Keir Starmer’s new defence spending plan makes no sense"
"King Donald should take a lesson from King Canute"
"Labour can’t cut its way to growth"
"Labour could ban big donations to political parties"
"Labour could demand that every business declare who it actually is"
"Labour could end no fault evictions"
"Labour could introduce PR for English local elections"
"Labour could require a bank in every town"
"Labour could start believing in government"
"Labour could take action against tax havens"
"Labour hasn't got a story to tell"
"Labour is a neoliberal political party"
"Labour is forcing people into work when AI’s eliminating jobs"
"Labour is not going to deliver"
"Labour isn’t interested in reform"
"Labour needs an urgent re set, because it’s failing"
"Labour needs to find its moral compass or it’s in deep trouble"
"Labour only cares about people who are earning or learning"
"Labour should be picking on tax cheats"
"Labour’s in a mess over ‘working people’, and rightly so"
"Labour’s plans for private sector growth could just as easily deliver a recession"
"Labour’s promoting growth using unproven and dangerous technologies"
"Land value taxation is not the panacea that its proponents claim"
"Large company accounts are works of fiction"
"Large company accounts are works of fiction"
"Let’s talk pensions…"
"Lord Keynes told us in 1941 how to pay for defence We should follow his advice."
"Modern monetary theory is not a policy"
"Nationalisation does not cost taxpayers anything"
"Nationalising essential utilities – like water – should not cost taxpayers anything at all"
"Oh dear, Keir"
"Once markets realise Trump is serious about tariffs they will crash"
"Our politics has failed young people – and we need to address that"
"Pay rises for teachers and the NHS will pay for themselves"
"People are claiming Bitcoin is the new gold It isn’t"
"People standing for parliament should have to prove they’re competent"
"People want better government, better jobs, and lower interest rates"
"Perfection is the enemy of the good"
"Politicians claim countries must be run like households, and that’s completely wrong"
"Politicians need to be people with convictions"
"Politics in the UK should not be for sale"
"Politics is all about power"
"Quantitative tightening denies us the investment we need"
"Rachel Reeves could not have done worse than this"
"Rachel Reeves has no story to tell in today’s budget"
"Rachel Reeves has to get her numbers right"
"Rachel Reeves is already making a mess of her Chancellorship"
"Rachel Reeves is hanging on by her fingertips That never lasts for long"
"Rachel Reeves really is clueless"
"Rachel Reeves would make a mess of any household’s finances"
"Rachel Reeves’ Budget is falling apart"
"Rachel Reeves’ increase in employers’ national insurance is going to cost the NHS dear"
"Reform wants to destroy the UK by destroying its money and its economy"
"Right-wing think tanks are promoting charter cities, and they’re a nightmare"
"Schools are killing creativity"
"Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland need better powers to tax"
"Should Russian money in Western banks be used to support Ukraine and its eventual reconstruction?"
"Six ways to fill Labour’s fiscal “black hole”"
"Something has to explain why politicians are now so bad"
"Starmer is failing and, like Farage, is seeking scapegoats for doing so"
"Starmer should not be copying Southgate"
"Subcontracting is the curse of the modern economy"
"The 5 million companies in the UK require a company law enforcement agency and we haven't got one"
"The Bank of England is driving the UK economy into recession"
"The Bank of England is fuelling inflation"
"The Bank of England is overdue for reform"
"The City wants an end to cash ISAs, and that would be a mistake"
"The House of Commons needs to join the 21st century"
"The IMF is worried about a low growth future when that’s exactly what we need"
"The UK’s housing costs are sucking life out of our economy"
"The UK’s suffering from top-down political thinking. Do we need to go bottom-up instead?"
"The US national debt is going to skyrocket upwards under Trump"
"The curse of the badge politician"
"The days when managing the economy is all about inflation should be over"
"The economics of small business"
"The far right is more popular than at any time since 1945. Why is that?"
"The government can never run out of money"
"The government can never run out of money"
"The government's accounts are incomplete and out of date – so how can they govern properly?"
"The government’s latest accounts show its debt’s fallen massively"
"The government’s losing nearly £60 billion a year to fraud"
"The investment we need is in people"
"The national debt is something to be celebrated"
"The national debt need never be repaid"
"The party is over"
"The rich don’t spend enough – and that means they shrink the economy"
"The rumour mill is working against Rachel Reeves. Is she on her way out?"
"The speech Keir Starmer should have given"
"The wealthy think they’re different"
"There are six reasons to tax and none involve funding the government"
"There’s more to Germany’s election result than the rise of the far right"
"There’s no electricity or water for Keir Starmer’s planned investments"
"There’s nothing in a tax haven"
"Trump has declared trade war and people in the US are going to suffer badly"
"Trump is Making America Poor Again"
"Trump is barring media he doesn’t like from the White House What’s next?"
"Trump is breaking everything we think we know, so this is the moment to plan a better future"
"Trump is going to hit the ground running this time"
"Trump is making words meaningless, and we must recreate that lost meaning"
"Trump is on the march"
"Trump is sanctioning lawyers who want to uphold the law . That’s wrong."
"Trump scares me rigid"
"Trump wants a crash to benefit the ultra wealthy"
"Trump wants to control the US Federal Reserve. But will he?"
"Trump wants to deny the US government the taxes it needs"
"Trump's rigging the law in the USA"
"Trump’s climate change denial is frightening"
"Trump’s programme is not going to deliver for the MAGA"
"Trump’s tariffs are bad news for everyone"
"UK company law is a joke: it exists, but no one enforces it"
"Understanding QE"
"Unless Starmer delivers in 2025, the 2029 election is over for Labour"
"Venezuela, the Weimar Republic and Zimbabwe prove MMT is true"
"Was Biden right to warn about the tech industrial complex?"
"We are now being exploited"
"We can only beat obesity if the state acts in ways the far right calls the ‘nanny state’"
"We do not have a national debt"
"We don’t need a wealth tax, yet"
"We need a Bank of England, but not the one we’ve got"
"We need a carbon army"
"We need proportional representation, now"
"We need to tell our story"
"Wealth taxes won’t work"
"Wes Streeting is wrong"
"Wes Streeting really does want to privatise the NHS"
"Wes Streeting's dreams are going to be shattered"
"We’re entering the Age of Aggression – a new era in political economy"
"What am I going to do in 2025?"
"What are tax havens used for?"
"What are the limits to government money creation?"
"What are we going to do when water runs out?"
"What can be done about tax havens?"
"What can be done to save Canada from Trump’s control?"
"What could the Bank of England do to support the UK economy?"
"What does Trump mean for the economy?"
"What happens if Trump wins the US election?"
"What happens to all the money that disappears in a crash yt"
"What is Modern Monetary Theory? by Richard J Murphy"
"What is a Tax Haven?"
"What is an envoy to the nations and regions?"
"What is modern monetary theory"
"What is the point of the Tories?"
"What is the single transferable party?"
"What is wrong with Financial Capitalism?"
"What makes Reform a far right party?"
"What might happen if Putin and Trump fall out, as is likely?"
"What politicians need to know about decision making"
"What we should do about taxing wealth"
"What would Reform do about potholes?"
"What would a good fiscal rule look like?"
"Whatever else is claimed about it, crypto is not a currency"
"What’s the challenge that Trump creates?"
"What’s the real reason why we tax?"
"Where does an extra £80 billion for defence come from?"
"Where is Labour going?"
"Where is the UK economy now?"
"Who and what are we defending in the UK It’s a question in need of an answer?"
"Who is asking the big economic questions right now?"
"Who is going to lead the Tories?"
"Who is going to oppose Labour in parliament?"
"Who owns the UK national Debt? Is it good for us and the future?"
"Who should Labour tax?"
"Why Should We Tax The Rich? Discussed by Richard"
"Why am I so worried by AI?"
"Why are people so good at their hobbies?"
"Why are tax havens harmful?"
"Why are the Tories so worried?"
"Why are the Tories talking about flat taxes again?"
"Why are you divorced from your savings?"
"Why aren't we talking about independence?"
"Why aren’t young people working?"
"Why can’t Labour do critical thinking?"
"Why do Labour believe in private equity?"
"Why do governments issue bonds when they don’t need to?"
"Why doesn’t the Bank of England tell the truth?"
"Why has Rachel Reeves called in bankers to advise on the NHS?"
"Why have the Tories given up on climate change?"
"Why inheritance tax charges are really good for real farmers – but not for financial whizz kids"
"Why is GERS C.R.A.P?"
"Why is Keir Starmer so obsessed with denying the free movement of people?"
"Why is Labour picking on pensioners?"
"Why is it that consumers are planning to spend less?"
"Why is modern monetary theory so important?"
"Why should people work at home?"
"Will 2025 be a nightmare year for Trump?"
"Will Rachel Reeves' NI hike crush UK economic growth?"
"Will Starmer end our ‘special relationship’?"
"Will Trump deliver what he says he's going to do?"
"Would you put your savings into a fund that financed the NHS?"
"You can’t base macroeconomics on microeconomics"
"You have to tax wealth to grow an economy"