Quantitative easing is not widely understood, but sometime soon will have funded (albeit, indirectly) almost £900 billion of government spending. It will have done so
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QE thoughts
Why and how we can do something much better than quantitative easing if we want to transform our economy
Modern monetary theory (MMT) says the government creates all our money – either itself through its own spending, or indirectly through the banks that it
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What happens when we create more quantitative easing?
Sometime very soon we are going to have an announcement from the Bank of England that they are going to create more quantitative easing. An
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Mythbuster: What is quantitative easing and how does it work?
I have been asked to explain how quantitative easing works, given how important it is within our economy and managing the coronavirus crisis right now.
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Goldman Sachs: suppliers of corruption services
Need I say more than this? I defined the suppliers of corruption services way back in 2007 as: 1. Those governments who supply the secrecy
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The case for MMT: or why the FT is wrong to publish ill-informed arguments against it
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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The right wing of economics really do need to learn some very basic things about money
My attention has been drawn to the Zero Hedge website where this has been posted: The conclusion of the piece was: I was asked to
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The IFS Green Budget is a manifesto for a bank that wants to see increased interest rates rather than a report that approximates to objective comment
The Institute for Fiscal Studies has issued its Green Budget (i.e. its forecasts for what it sees the budget scenarios to be) for autumn 2020
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