2020 October 22

FT Alphaville is convinced on MMT

Posted on October 22 2020

I wrote about Stephen King’s article on MMT in the FT this morning. Soon after posting it I sent a link to FT Alphaville. And
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The Chancellor’s support for people suffering new lockdowns is of a type only a hedgefund manager doing an internship at the Treasury as Chancellor could have devised

Posted on October 22 2020

From my Twitter account:

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The demand for government support for business is going up – and the schemes are coming to an end

Posted on October 22 2020

This data was published today by the government. It shows the demand for so-called ‘bounce back loans’ that have been made available to help businesses
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The case for MMT: or why the FT is wrong to publish ill-informed arguments against it

Posted on October 22 2020

Stephen King, who is HSBC’s Senior Economic Adviser and author of ‘Grave New World’ has an article in the FT today under the title ‘The
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There’s room for at least another £500 billion of quantitative easing funding right now – and the Bank of England is expecting to use it

Posted on October 22 2020

Dave Ramsden is Deputy Governor for Markets & Banking at the Bank of England. Yesterday he gave a speech with the title The Monetary Policy
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Coronavirus has made very clear why we need electoral reform in the UK

Posted on October 22 2020

The idea that the economic downturn that we are nw facing might be prolonged and ghastly is, I think, slowly beginning to permeate the collective
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