I have been asked to share an announcement of a two-day weekend session on Modern Monetary Theory, being held in Sheffield in September, at which
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Hyperinflation? Not in the UK
Hyperinflation is the scare story threatened by those who want to stop government spending. But it’s just that: a scare story. In this video, I
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What would a return to the gold standard really mean?
Reform UK published ‘Our Contract with You’ a while ago, and although the idea is not fully formed, there are hints, including from public statements from
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Scotonomics, next Friday
MMT: Magic, myth or reality?
Forget the myths. In this video, I set the record straight on MMT: what it is, how it works, and what it doesn’t claim to
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Crypto is not money
Crypto is not money. It’s not secure. It’s not stable. It’s just speculation wrapped in dogma — and a huge risk to society. This is
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You’ve got no money in the bank
People still like to talk about having ‘money in the bank’. But they haven’t. They just have a bank statement from a bank, with a
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If Keir Starmer understood this one blog post he could transform the UK
As the Financial Times noted yesterday: Sir Keir Starmer has rejected calls from senior Labour figures to fill a growing fiscal hole with big tax
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Should big tech be allowed to issue crypto?
If big tech can issue their own currencies for use around the world, what chance is there that macroeconomic control of the national economies of
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