There is much discussion on Labour’s electoral prospects in the media this morning. It is as if the coming week’s local elections are turning attention
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Will you swear allegiance to the King?
This is the front cover of this morning’s Mail: I will not swear allegiance to someone I think has no right to rule this country.
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Bob Dylan spoke too soon: the time’s they aren’t a changin’
This is from the front page of the Telegraph this morning: So there we have someone who very obviously wishes to be prime minister of
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MMT, Steve Keen, and friends
I was on Steve Keen and Friends yesterday. This is the video, all two hours of it: We discussed a lot of topics, with much
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On the River Cam
On the River Cam today: A great crested grebe on its floating nest. Its partner was nearby, standing guard. It’s a phone picture but the
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MMT – the differences
I am not sure what others have made of the discussions on modern monetary theory (MMT) that have dominated this blog during the last week
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Quantitative easing did not cause inflation: now shall we move on from all claims that it did?
Ben Broadbent, deputy governor of the Bank of England, gave a speech this week in which I agreed with some (but by no means all)
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Country-by-country reporting to go public in Australia. Will the world now follow in its path?
I wrote the first version of country-by-country reporting for multinational corporations that are public interest entities in 2003. That can be found here. Now Australia
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Sorting out the spend and tax cycle in modern monetary theory
The post that follows is one of my ongoing series on thinking about what modern monetary theory (MMT) says and what I think it should
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