{"id":51647,"date":"2020-07-18T12:10:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T11:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=51647"},"modified":"2020-07-18T12:10:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T11:10:52","slug":"saturday-morning-mmt-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/07\/18\/saturday-morning-mmt-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday morning MMT thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in months I went out for a coffee this morning, with an iPad of course. And these <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichardJMurphy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweets happened. <\/a>They are in the right order, top-down.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-51657 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-18-at-12.02.47-550x152.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-18-at-12.02.47-550x152.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-18-at-12.02.47-768x212.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-18-at-12.02.47-600x166.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-18-at-12.02.47.png 788w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-51656 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-18-at-12.02.57-550x137.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-18-at-12.02.57-550x137.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-18-at-12.02.57-768x192.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-18-at-12.02.57-600x150.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-18-at-12.02.57.png 778w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-51655 aligncenter\" 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And these tweets happened. They are<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/07\/18\/saturday-morning-mmt-thoughts\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-modern-monetary-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}