I have been asked by a number of people, from MPs onwards, to prepare answers to the types of questions being commonly asked about the
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The UK hasn’t got a credit card and it’s not maxed out
I am so bored by the claim the the UK has a credit card, and that it’s maxed out that I made a video about
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MMT, next Wednesday
If anyone is interested this is an open event I am doing next week. Click the Register button at the bottom if you want to
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MMT is encroaching on the consciousness of more and more economists, every day
There was an article in The Times on Saturday in which its economics editor, Philip Aldrick, said in his opening para: Modern monetary theory, received
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The Governor of the Bank of England really does need to tell the truth about QE, even if that means he must find out what it is
I watched some of the Treasury Committee hearing this afternoon. A Bank of England team were being questioned on many issues, including MMT. Steve Baker
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Tackling the idea that there is only taxpayers’ money – because that is completely untrue
A regular commentator, usually simply using the name Andrew, posted this on the blog overnight: It would be good to find a convenient way to
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The history and significance of QE in the UK
The post that follows was written as a Twitter thread. As a result no paragraph is more than 280 characters long. But it grew, and
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The book I most want to read, right now
Martin Wolf’s list of economics books for 2020 includes not a single title I have read, and rather bizarrely omits the best seller – Stephanie
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It is the government’s job to deliver full employment. And it’s failing
Every now and again the Guardian slips through a Modern Monetary Theory editorial. Today is one of those days. It begins: A great deal of
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