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Hoping to put the ECO in ECOnomics. Once you understand how economics shapes our world and can be used to help in most of our crises, you will get it. #MMT
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@whispers-actual.bsky.social
· Nov 16
By measuring the mortality, morbidity and misery inflicted upon the most vulnerable, conservatives and centrists can quantify their success.
The GDP of austerity.
The GDP of austerity.
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I wrote about the feasibility and implications of changing our macroeconomic management to a ZIRP+JG+Banking Reforms approach, using the insights of the MMT framework lens.
open.substack.com/pub/jgs952/p...
open.substack.com/pub/jgs952/p...
Zero-Interest Rates, Job Guarantee, and MMT in the UK
Feasibility and Implications
open.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I wrote about the feasibility and implications of changing our macroeconomic management to a ZIRP+JG+Banking Reforms approach, using the insights of the MMT framework lens.
open.substack.com/pub/jgs952/p...
open.substack.com/pub/jgs952/p...
"If only sceptics could open their minds to appreciate this view"
This is an incredibly powerful depiction of life in the UK under an #MMT economic lens. If only sceptics could open their minds to appreciate this view.
I wrote about the feasibility and implications of changing our macroeconomic management to a ZIRP+JG+Banking Reforms approach, using the insights of the MMT framework lens.
open.substack.com/pub/jgs952/p...
open.substack.com/pub/jgs952/p...
December 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
"If only sceptics could open their minds to appreciate this view"
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Available now - our free-to-download 'Best of the Blog 2025' book. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/downloa...
December 13, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Available now - our free-to-download 'Best of the Blog 2025' book. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/downloa...
"what real change requires beyond elections"
🔥 NEW EPISODE!!
Historian Vijay Prashad talks w/ @austerityismurder.bsky.social about Antonio Gramsci, cultural hegemony & why working-class movements can get derailed by counterrevolution. A sharp, grounded discussion of class power, political education & what real change requires beyond elections.
Historian Vijay Prashad talks w/ @austerityismurder.bsky.social about Antonio Gramsci, cultural hegemony & why working-class movements can get derailed by counterrevolution. A sharp, grounded discussion of class power, political education & what real change requires beyond elections.
Episode 358 - Now Is the Time of Monsters: Gramsci on Counterrevolution with Vijay Prashad
Historian Vijay Prashad talks about Antonio Gramsci, cultural hegemony, and why working-class movements can get derailed by counterrevolution. A sharp, grounded discussion of class power, political ed...
realprogressives.org
December 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM
"what real change requires beyond elections"
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If every country is in debt, where's the money? youtu.be/Ki8QUa3oVF0?...
If every country is in debt, where's the money?
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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December 12, 2025 at 7:08 AM
If every country is in debt, where's the money? youtu.be/Ki8QUa3oVF0?...
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"how lenders adjust the mix of mortgage products in response to changes in monetary policy"
Staff Working Paper 1158 by A Rajan (BoE), F Rodriguez-Tous (Bayes) & M Salgado-Moreno (BoE) studies how lenders adjust the mix of mortgage products in response to changes in monetary policy. 👉 www.bankofengland.co.uk/working-pape...
Monetary policy and mortgage fixation lengths
Staff working papers set out research in progress by our staff, with the aim of encouraging comments and debate.
www.bankofengland.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 10:42 AM
"how lenders adjust the mix of mortgage products in response to changes in monetary policy"
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Macro n Chill tonight 8PM EST and 5PM PST
SOCIALISM WITH CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS with MMT economist Yan Liang!!!!
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
SOCIALISM WITH CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS with MMT economist Yan Liang!!!!
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
December 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Macro n Chill tonight 8PM EST and 5PM PST
SOCIALISM WITH CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS with MMT economist Yan Liang!!!!
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
SOCIALISM WITH CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS with MMT economist Yan Liang!!!!
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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December 8, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Thank God for that! The first reasonable article about #MMT and @zackpolanski.bsky.social 's fresh take on the economy. Well done @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/politics/gre...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/gre...
The case for Zack Polanski's economic plan
The Green Party leader's recent arguments sound a lot like Modern Monetary Theory
www.newstatesman.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Thank God for that! The first reasonable article about #MMT and @zackpolanski.bsky.social 's fresh take on the economy. Well done @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/politics/gre...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/gre...
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This is terrifying. @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social's neglect is clearly abetting the killing of patients. When will Keir Starmer take preventive action?@teamlabouruk.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
This is terrifying. @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social's neglect is clearly abetting the killing of patients. When will Keir Starmer take preventive action?@teamlabouruk.bsky.social
"he remains addicted to the flat earth economics of the bond markets"
@Rory-Stewart.bsky.social ties himself in knots of cognitive dissonance caused by modern monetary theory @therestispolitics.bsky.social. He's clearly discovered that #MMT is pure fact, but he remains addicted to the flat earth economics of the bond markets
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Polanski’s Problem, Westminster’s Russia Blind Spot, and Justice Without Juries? (Question Time)
Podcast Episode · The Rest Is Politics · 04/12/2025 · 58m
podcasts.apple.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM
"he remains addicted to the flat earth economics of the bond markets"
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Congress passes a Lew then sends it to the Treasury who sorts the Money out and sends that to the Fed to release the Payments, the Fed creates The Money out of thin Air, Here is an Elon Musk example to explain. #MMT Learn MMT like your life depends upon it because it does.
Elon Musk Discovers the "Magic" of Modern Money
Yesterday, U.S.
stephaniekelton.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Congress passes a Lew then sends it to the Treasury who sorts the Money out and sends that to the Fed to release the Payments, the Fed creates The Money out of thin Air, Here is an Elon Musk example to explain. #MMT Learn MMT like your life depends upon it because it does.
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I wish I was a Constitutional scholar & historian so I could give a better arg for why the most important revolution was the creation of our Constitutional Public Money.
& that it’s not “optional”, but Constitutionally determined, that our gov should pay for a big, wealthy, diverse, public sector
& that it’s not “optional”, but Constitutionally determined, that our gov should pay for a big, wealthy, diverse, public sector
December 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I wish I was a Constitutional scholar & historian so I could give a better arg for why the most important revolution was the creation of our Constitutional Public Money.
& that it’s not “optional”, but Constitutionally determined, that our gov should pay for a big, wealthy, diverse, public sector
& that it’s not “optional”, but Constitutionally determined, that our gov should pay for a big, wealthy, diverse, public sector
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Why does everyone talk like a comic book villain now?
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Why does everyone talk like a comic book villain now?
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When you understand monetary operations these guys lose all credibility with regard to public finance:
www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
MSN
www.msn.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:52 PM
When you understand monetary operations these guys lose all credibility with regard to public finance:
www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
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Why won’t so much of the left believe in the sovereign power to make money? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12...
Why won’t so much of the left believe in the sovereign power to make money?
There are days when I genuinely wonder what parts of the left think the state is for.
The capacity to create money is the most fundamental power any modern government possesses. It is the basis of its...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
December 1, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Why won’t so much of the left believe in the sovereign power to make money? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12...
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Rachel Reeves just gave us a masterclass in how NOT to run a budget. We got leaks, U-turns, political theatre, but no real economic planning
this video, explains what's gone wrong and how we could get a rational budget delivering for us
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knt4...
this video, explains what's gone wrong and how we could get a rational budget delivering for us
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knt4...
Why the UK budget system is broken — and how to fix it
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
www.youtube.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Rachel Reeves just gave us a masterclass in how NOT to run a budget. We got leaks, U-turns, political theatre, but no real economic planning
this video, explains what's gone wrong and how we could get a rational budget delivering for us
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knt4...
this video, explains what's gone wrong and how we could get a rational budget delivering for us
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knt4...
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MMT matters because it reveals power – and gives us back the right to choose www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
MMT matters because it reveals power – and gives us back the right to choose
I think modern monetary theory (MMT) matters. That is not because it is perfect, because no theory is. Instead, it is because it explains something that almost no one in mainstream economics has ever ...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
November 30, 2025 at 8:30 AM
MMT matters because it reveals power – and gives us back the right to choose www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
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Questions to ask a lcritic of MMT www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
Questions to ask a left-wing critic of MMT
Some on the Marxist left of politics, including those of that persuasion who have now entered the Greens in England and Wales with the clear aim of pushing it in a Marxist, class warfare-based directi...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
November 30, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Questions to ask a lcritic of MMT www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...