As the Financial Times noted yesterday: Sir Keir Starmer has rejected calls from senior Labour figures to fill a growing fiscal hole with big tax
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Should big tech be allowed to issue crypto?
If big tech can issue their own currencies for use around the world, what chance is there that macroeconomic control of the national economies of
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The money Rachel Reeves needs is readily available. All that is lacking is the understanding on how to use it
Andrew Rawnsley wrote this in The Observer this morning: Nigel Farage can promise the moon on a stick. Sir Ed Davey can oppose every tax
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The economics of independence
I got this note through yesterday from William Thomson, who co-runs something called Scotonomics, for whom I have recorded on a number of occasions, because
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Steve Keen on Bill Mitchell’s absurd claims on the economics of trade
In one of Steve Keens’s latest Substack posts, he has this to say: Steve then proceeds to demolish the absurd notion that Bill Mitchell and
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Money is just made up
People think money is real, mysterious and valuable. They still think gold is involved in the process. It’s actually nothing like that. It’s nothing more
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My approach to MMT – the AI version
This is another AI (ChatGPT) generated summary of my thinking. I asked it to discuss my approach to modern monetary theory. The following text is
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Musk has discovered modern monetary theory
This is so funny: As Stephanie Kelton has also noted on Substack, Musk has discovered that the US government does, when it spends, create money
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Why is there always money for war?
There is always money for defence spending. As Europe has discovered, mention security and money can be found. €800bn was in the EU at a
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