I would love to hear from AEP, or from Prof Congdon, exactly how creating money is supposed to create wealth. If the Central Banks of the world buy private sector bank debt, they create new demand-deposit money that the private sector banking system can then lend. So more money units chase the same goods and services? Where is the new wealth? - Toby Baxendale...

The Conservatives are maintaining a double-figures lead in the polls. This lead is due to strong support from those of us who work in the private sector: Private sector Conservatives - 45% Labour - 29% Lib Dem - 17% Nothing unusual there then. But what about the public sector? Here there’s a bit of a surprise: Public sector Conservative -38% Labour - 26% Lib

Patients are using private hospitals at the expense of the NHS. However, this is a good thing. Despite the claims by doctors this is “losing” public money to the private sector: This is money that is being lost from the NHS. That can compromise services and patients should be told that by going private in this way

An interesting feature of this morning's Times Populus poll is the split between public sector and private sector workers. The Conservatives do better among private sector workers. No surpirse. But Labour now also do better among private sector workers than...

The private market banks have failed and the function of banking has moved into the public sector. But, taking one step bank, we see that the function of creating money in the private market has also failed. Reducing interest rates, i.e. making money cheaper to borrow, has not managed to stimulate the money creation system that is privately operated, and relies on debt for its existence. So this m...

When private sector financial services have so obviously failed and when the private sector is sitting on tens, if not, hundreds of billions of cash it has not a clue what to do with it is very obvious that paying the private sector to manage the projects we need to fund our economy, to allocate

There are a number of examples of the Scottish Government and the private sector working together to deliver strong messaging, and we envisage more opportunities for private b

The Tories justify their policy to privatise parts of the NHS by claiming that the private sector is more productive/ But it is quite clear from the figures that the private sector is considerably more expensive than the NHS. Andrew Lansley may be right that productivity is increasing in the private sector, but it will need to have some very impressive improvements for it to reach the productivity...

We all know state employees' pensions are better than we can get in the private sector which pays for them. Mike Denham summarises the ghastly truth here. If all public sector employees were henceforth moved across onto the average private sector pension arrangement, the annual employer contribution would drop from £21bn pa to around £8bn pa (the average private employer contribut...

Several papers and comentators have noticed the very different path of public sector and private sector wages. Public sector pay is rising three times as quickly as private sector pay. In the private sector many companies are cutting earnings, and in some cases