There is no budget that does not unravel. Rishi Sunak’s has. It’s apparent there is much wrong with it, but the most significant was the
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I have been asked by some politicians to answer the question ‘How we should we deal with the mountain of Covid debt?’ which is the
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The above was the slightly awkward title that my talk to Keele World Affairs ended up with. The talk will be available in video format
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I learned this morning that I podcast I recorded recently with Manda Scott for the Accidental Gods podcast series has been published. This comes from
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I have already plugged this a bit but I will do so again: Tickets are available by signing up as a non-member here.

I watched Channel 4’s Dispatches on who pays for Covid last night, largely in despair. Partly that was at the choice of the hard-right economics
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This comment was posted on the blog over the weekend in response to my comments on Recovery Bonds: You can add the MMT community to
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It has been suggested to me that my support for the issue of savings bonds to the public to fund socially useful investment, with government
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There are, I admit, moments when I find those promoting MMT deeply annoying. An occasion when this was the case occurred yesterday. The Gower Initiative
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