The FT has reported this morning that the US Fed has backtracked on its commitment to shrink its balance sheet. Over the last year or
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The New Statesman: making up stories about modern monetary theory
The New Statesman published this article last night: In the article it is said that: Stephanie Kelton, a former economic adviser to the Democratic US presidential
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Does the Green New Deal need modern monetary theory?
It would appear that in the eyes of left and right the biggest problem to implementing the Green New Deal is the link made between
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Some money basics
Should Labour be promoting boom and bust?
I can well recall a guy I knew at university. Jock was a leading spokesperson for the gay movement in union debate at the time.
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The political economy of Labour’s fiscal rule
I could do a blow by blow account of the exchanges on Twitter between Jonathan Portes, Simon Wren-Lewis and me concerning Labour’s Fiscal rule last
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Labour’s fiscal rule is Osbornomics
The debate on Twitter between Simon Wren-Lewis, Jonathan Portes and me on Labour’s fiscal rule was resumed last night, and continued long after I’d dropped
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Pollution caps and modern monetary theory
Rupert Read is a philosopher at the University of East Anglia. He is a prominent Green Party campaigner and chair if the Greenhouse think tank.
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A challenge to Simon Wren-Lewis on modern monetary theory and Labour’s fiscal credibility rule
Simon Wren-Lewis made an interesting claim yesterday in three tweets: This is, of course, a response to the debate on MMT and the Labour Party
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