I think it worth sharing this from an article on the Brave New Europe website (where articles from this blog also appear, frequently) in which
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Politics can still deliver but only if there is fairness, honesty and hope
The world is still in quite reasonable shock as a consequence of Trump’s attempted coup. It will take a while for the recovery from a
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Why modern monetary theory delivers better economic decision making
Some people seem to think that modern monetary theory implies that a government can spend money without limit, but that is completely untrue. Unlike other
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Accounting and the UK Exchequer
Helen Schofield, Twitter and Facebook all drew my attention to a new report from the Gower Initiative for Modern Monetary Studies this morning. As Helen
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UK law has already enacted modern monetary theory, and was last updated to do so in 2000
I saw this tweet today by the Gower Initiative for Modern Money Studies: Deliberately misleading the public? Or do your journalists lack a basic understanding
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Why we don’t need to repay the national debt – and why doing so would be incredibly economically harmful
I have just posted this on Twitter – as a rather long thread. But it’s important to explain why the debt fetishists are wrong to
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The BBC: paving the way to austerity
I listened to the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘The Magic Money Forest’ last night. I will save you the time doing so. This was a
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How your bank account works
Most people have no clue how their bank account really works. A frighteningly large number think that there is a pile of cash in the bank with
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Macroeconomics, money and post-Brexit recovery, all in one Twitter thread
This Twitter thread, published this morning, took about four hours and 40 years of thinking to write… I keep hearing people complain that the ‘mainstream
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