I began posting a series of comments from Helen Schofield on the history of money yesterday. Today I add her third and fourth instalments. The
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The ultimate goal of government is to deliver freedom from fear and ours is not doing that
There are days when the most appropriate type of blog post are those that are full of policy ideas, and detail. There have been quite
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Christine Desan’s Work In Relation To MMT – a guest post
It was recently decided on this blog that in general guest posts here were not a good idea, but that the occasional elevation of a
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Sunak is the most dangerous man in the UK and looks intent on cementing his reputation
I feel as if I have spent much of the last year saying to people that now is not the time to raise taxes when
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Labour needs a big idea. But would it use one if it saw it?
I am well aware that nit al, readers of this blog are fans of the Guardian. And yet, beneath its veneer there is comment worth
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How to beat the deficit narrative by selling the idea of debt
In this final video in my series on quantitative easing, green QE and modern monetary theory, I moved towards the practical goals of policy. I
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Why Green QE and MMT can co-exist
This is the third in a series of videos on why I think that the UK should move away from conventional quantitative easing towards what
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Sunak can try being the petty Chancellor, but he would be best not to do so.Â
The FT has an article today which begins be saying: Chancellor Rishi Sunak has told Conservative MPs he wants to use his March Budget to
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So, what is MMT?
This was published via Bloomberg Markets yesterday, and I thought it worth sharing: THAT'S NOT MMT In today's @Markets newsletter, I wrote a very simple
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