A new commentator on this blog, called Sammy, asked last night: I often hear a version of the phrase used in the blog, where the
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The Scottish Currency Group conference
I’ll be speaking (remotely) at the Scottish Currency Group conference this weekend: You can also attend remotely. Tickets are available here. And this should be
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The Chinese have worked it out: stablecoins are the privatisation of money
The FT reports this morning that: Chinese tech giants have paused plans to issue stablecoins in Hong Kong, after Beijing raised concerns about the rise
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What if the UK admitted it uses MMT and turned that into its superpower?
What if the UK government admitted it already uses modern monetary theory? Would markets panic — or would we finally have the power to rebuild
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Zack Polanski: the reaction
I sat down with Zack Polanski yesterday, the new leader of the Green Party, for a fascinating discussion on economics and politics. This was my
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Meeting with Zack Polanski
As I mentioned yesterday morning, I was in London yesterday recording a podcast with Zack Polanski, the leader of the Green Party in England and
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We don’t need to tax gambling to end child poverty
We learned last night that more than one hundred Labour MPs seem to think that the only way we can pay for child poverty is
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Steve Keen on rethinking money
Loanable funds? The money multiplier? Steve Keen and Richard Murphy dismantle the myths. Double-entry accounting shows what really happens when banks create money and governments
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The Quantum Essays: Quantum MMT: The wave function of sovereign spending
Background Having finished the first series that I plan to publish on quantum economics (others are planned), it became clear that explaining the use of this
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