One of the websites we subscribe to because we run a YouTube channel is VIQ. They provide us with significantly more data and analysis on how our videos perform than YouTube does. I just noticed this:
We have just passed 40 million views on our channel.
This channel was launched six years ago when I worked with the late Mark Cooney to create videos during lockdown, but after Mark died, I lost my enthusiasm for this type of creation. It is amazing how important it is to work with somebody who shares your enthusiasm, and it was not until my son, Tom, joined me that things really began to pick up again.
At that time we had 8,000 subscribers. Since we re-launched in April 2024, growth has been spectacular.
My thanks to everyone who has watched. We genuinely appreciate it.
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While your work on what national governments should and should not be doing is important, if you are looking to extend your subject range, here is an idea:
There are important subsidiary levels of government, regional and local, that can not issue currency and are outside the scope of MMT. Moreover, they are outside the scope of most political economic thinking, which, like your own body of work, leans towards the national level. There is a need for sound economic theory to guide them in managing their areas, in the context of their more constrained and limited powers and resources. However, anything that exists is not well known enough, and there really is a need to give local activists and councillors, who are not only the main feedstock for national politicians, but a crucial part of civic structure in their own right, better material to educate themselves.
That would be a challenge
I am not sure it is for me
Jolly well done! Absolutely splendid!
Your shorts have even started turning up in my Fb feed – of their own accord – looks like algorithms are kicking in.
KUTGW!
Thanks…
Great results! Great efforts in informing, analysing and inspiring us on what is ill and how we might reach a healthier state. Hats off to you, Team Murphy and all who assist.
Motivated by Ian S’s comment on the multiple failures of bankers (https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/01/30/without-data-the-risk-of-a-crash-cannot-be-managed-we-might-be-flying-blind-already/#comment-1065255), here’s a suggestion for a new tack.
Firstly, I note that many of us value the ‘reference series’ you have created on positive alternatives society and politicians could make. Commentators have valued the ability to have arguments to help on the Omnibus, etc.
What you haven’t done is to go through a series of the multiple failures of neoliberal thinking and policy in the last 40 years. I’m fed up with hearing “but my mum wouldn’t have got her house without Maggie”, from someone who has no understanding of the destruction that was sown on housing or anything else that was part of Thatcher’s legacy. Perhaps that approach would be seen as being negative – but it might be useful to say:
– Here’s what the neoliberals wanted to do – this was their claim – this was the outcome.
– It can be looking back — and it can also be future-looking. This is what Farage wants to do – this is his claim – this is my prophecy. And build up a reference of issues on that (including, in time, lists of things that can demonstrate the ‘correctness’ of a ‘caring view’, and the ‘wrongness’ of a ‘neolib’ view.
Oddly, this is in discussion as a project James might research to suggest why a politics of care is needed.
Something I have wondered about.. maybe its obvious and I’m just not “getting it” but here goes. It seems as if many countries facing the Trump tariffs are being blackmailed to do what he wants because they are terrified that if tariffs are imposed the market for that particularly product under tariffs will die and there will be a loss of employment, GDP will plummet, economic disaster will follow…. It seems to me that we are on this never ending treadmill where we have to keep producing stuff that maybe no-one really needs or at least no-one needs in the quantity that is being produced so we have to get rid of it by trading it for the stuff that our trading partner doesn’t need who makes it for the same reason that we do.. to keep people employed… a circle that goes around and around..using up the earths resources at a pace that is unsustainable. If MMT works, and you have convinced me that it does! we could avoid all this over production by instead using MMT as the basis for a universal basic income that could free people up to do really useful things like.. clean up the environment, look after each other…It would free us from the current Trump dictatorship by freeing us from the imperative of trade while using available financial resources to maybe create a better society! Pipe dream??
MMT is not the basis for a UBI.
It might enable one, but that is a policy choice indepdnent of MMT. MMT just describes what is when it comes to money.
Your clarity on MMT is very much appreciated by this reader from the Canadian prairie. Thankyou.
Thanks