Common space, the news website linked to the Common Weal think tank in Scotland, reported last Thursday that: FIRST MINISTER Nicola Sturgeon has tentatively revealed
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The Institute for Fiscal Studies finding that more UK tax is being paid by a smaller group at the top of the income scale resulted
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The FT reported last night: Boris Johnson is preparing to spend billions more on health and social care, including a hospital building programme and a
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Simon Wren-Lewis has written a response to criticism of Labour’s Fiscal Credibility Rule (FCR) in the New Statesman. Simon co-authored this rule with Jonathan Portes.
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A correspondent called James Meek asked a number of what I might call quite normal intelligent questions about MMT yesterday. Let me address them. First
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Labour clearly is very worried about the threat that modern monetary theory (MMT) poses to it. No sooner has James Meadway popped up in Tribune
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Modern monetary theory (MMT) is certainly getting it in the neck right now. Two articles I noticed this week were direct attacks in it. And
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I notice that Boris Johnson has joined Dominic Raab (and no doubt some other unknowns) in offering tax cuts as a lure in the Tory
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Martin Wolf has conceded that MMT is an economic truth in the FT this morning. The headline says: States create useful money, but abuse it
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