For readers in England it would be easy to be wholly unaware that Scotland is facing a massive political crisis. No, I am not talking
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Tory employment plans disguise the fact that the real target is the minimum wage
As the FT has noted this morning: Worker protections enshrined in EU law – including the 48-hour week – would be ripped up under plans
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Government funds are not ‘taxpayer money’ and the media and politicians should stop confusing the two
This article was written by Jonathan Barrett, who is a senior lecturer in Taxation, Te Herenga Waka at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand,.
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Sectoral balances show that government deficits fuel private saving
This Tweet from MMT professor Dirk Ehnts is well worth sharing: I have been playing with the sectoral financial balances today, with data prepared by
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The paradox at the heart of Labour’s economic policy
Annelise Dodds had two deeply conflicted comments to make in her Mais lecture last night. She said: A responsible approach to government debt is also
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Labour’s message to women and the retired is ‘go to work’
Anneliese Dodds said this in her Mais lecture yesterday: Longer-term, we cannot discount the possibility that trends, including demography, may exert upward pressure on inflation.
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Labour still thinks the financial markets are in charge – and that’s profoundly disappointing when that’s not true
I wrote yesterday about Labour’s dedication to fiscal rules, and how ill-advised this was. I have now read Anneliese Dodd’s Mais lecture, given last night.
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The FT is saying today that ‘austerity does not work, long live austerity!’
The FT has published the most extraordinarily confused editorial today. It is on the future direction of macroeconomic policy, and so well within what should
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WIll MMT punish working people with tax rises if there is inflation?
I was asked to make this video to explain whether, or not, people on low incomes would be punished more heavily than those with higher
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