I have noted the continuing questions being thrown at me for saying quantitative easing is not a simple asset swap. I could respond to those
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As the Guardian notes this morning: Jacob Rees-Mogg has asked Rishi Sunak to reconsider impending tax rises as the chancellor and the prime minister came
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The Bank of England has issued this press release this week: It says: ‘Can’t we just print more money?’ is a new pop-economics book, written
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I have promoted the ideas implicit in Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) for some time. Indeed, I think I have done more than most to promote
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I had a conversation yesterday in which the prospect of QE being unwound was discussed. As regular readers of this blog know, I am firmly
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The Office for National Statistics has produced a new publication on public debt this morning, including figures for November 2021. It includes this chart: However,
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The Australian edition of the Guardian (available via the UK website) had an article yesterday that was headlined as follows: The author is described as
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I found this headline in the FT both simultaneously worrying and intriguing: Germany has had a constitutional ban on its government borrowing for some years
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It is big news when an issue to which this blog has contributed makes it to be an FT headline, but it happened this morning:
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