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- A Fairy Story
- A Lesson in Economics from Stephanie Kelton !
- A looming demographic time bomb?
- A Simple Four Sector Model of an Economy
- An economic quiz!
- An Independent Scotland will need its National Debt!
- Are Government Bonds Just Another Form of Money?
- As an online economic discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving the Weimar Republic or Zimbabwe approaches 1
- “All of the economic research that allegedly supported the austerity push has been discredited”
- Balancing the Budget !
- Big Scary Numbers #2: Everyone in the UK owes £34,281.54
- Big Scary Numbers: Like the UK National Debt is £2,228,300,000,000
- Bill Mitchell and Randall Wray
- Booms and Busts
- Boots, Economics and Politics
- Borrowings and Lendings
- Budget Deficits: a Burden to our Children and Grandchildren?
- Can commercial banks create money out of thin air?
- Can Commercial Banks Create Money out of Thin Air? #3 The “creation of money” by private banks in the process of lending leads only to the removal of money from the economy
- Can commercial banks create money out of thin air? (2)
- Can government debt ever be termed good, bad or irrelevant?
- Classical economists don’t understand real people or real economies.
- Do we need to balance our books in Australia? Yes, maybe, except they already are!
- Doctor Who and the Dalek invasion of Planet Earth 2150. The MMT version.
- Economic Imperialism: Fact or Fiction?
- Ed Balls Promises to Wreck the UK Economy by 2020
- European lemmings!
- European lemmings!
- Eurozone electors have been sold a lemon!
- Follow me on Twitter?
- Future Funds and a Biblical story.
- German euros and Greek euros. Are they really the same?
- Germans don’t understand how currency unions need to function.
- Germany vs Greece. The end game?
- Germany vs Greece: The battle commences!
- Greece hasn’t got a debt problem. It has a lack of growth problem!
- Greek debts cannot be repaid in euros!
- Help! Australia is Running out of Money!
- High Unemployment in Britain is its own Government’s Fault. No-one else’s!
- How come that nearly everyone, gets it all wrong on money and the economy?
- How to Balance the Government Budget. The MMT way!
- How to Balance the Government Budget. The MMT way! (Part 2)
- How to win and lose elections
- How to win and lose elections. (2)
- I don’t promise to pay the bearer on demand… but we’ll give you two fives for a ten!
- If Dollars and Pounds are Really IOUs it Must Logically Follow that Government Debts Need Never be Repaid!
- Is there really a “skills shortage”?
- John Quiggin, MMT and Russia
- Keeping it Simple
- Loan repayments destroy credit money. Right? Wrong. They don’t.
- Loan repayments destroy credit money. Right? Wrong. They don’t. (Part2)
- Loan repayments destroy credit money. Right? Wrong. They don’t. (Part2)
- MMT – Economics for the Political Right?
- MMT Humour
- MMT Humour – Money and Babies
- MMT is gaining followers!
- MMT: The antidote to nonsensical economics.
- MMTers: Does Adair Turner have a point?
- Money, Government Bonds, and Quantitative Easing
- More on why fiat currencies have a value.
- Muddled Thinking Watch # 3 Hugh Pym of the BBC with his coloured sweets
- Muddled Thinking Watch #2: The Bank of England is wrong… in its claims QE creates no inflationary pressure writes Andrew Lilico
- Muddled Thinking Watch #4: “British economy too reliant on people spending money” Christine Lagarde IMF!
- Muddled Thinking Watch #5: “Increase taxes to balance the budget, the revenue well is not dry” Greg Jericho. The Guardian.
- Muddled Thinking Watch #6: Trade figures show long road ahead to rebalance Britain’s economy. Larry Elliot. The Guardian
- Muddled Thinking Watch #7: Chuka Umunna on Labour’s pre-GFC Deficit
- Muddled Thinking Watch: “We will need decades of austerity not years” writes Philip Booth in the Daily Telegraph
- Nationalisation Costs Nothing and Privatisation Raises Nothing!
- Neo-liberal thinking!
- Neo-Liberalism virus infects the UK Labour party! They want a government surplus without a trade surplus!
- Never mind the deficit just vote for the recovery!
- No government debts need ever be repaid !
- Note to the beancounters of this world: If you plant beans, you can grow more beans!
- On BBC tv NEWSNIGHT
- One (or maybe slightly more) Line Responses to Common Neo-liberal Arguments
- Positive Money : A Fallacy Built on a Little Known Truth. (Part 1)
- Positive Money : A Fallacy Built on a Little Known Truth. (Part 2)
- Positive Money : A Fallacy Built on a Little Known Truth. (Part 3)
- Revaluing the Swiss Franc
- Spending = Income! The Government needs to run a deficit to balance the books!
- Stand by for the next UK crash! ETA 2016
- Steve Keen Explains why Quantative Easing is not Inflationary and can’t simply be Considered Money Printing.
- Tesco announces plans to open 40 new skips across country
- The British left needs to discuss more than the UK’s membership of the EU.
- The Concept of Money Speed. Fast and Slow Money.
- The Earth is not flat!
- The economics of a budget surplus: Something to think about before making rash promises
- The EU: Progressive or Reactionary?
- The Euro Cannot Survive Without Greece!
- The Euro could work so why doesn’t it?
- The Government isn’t living beyond its means!
- The Half-Life of Money
- The Japanese own their own debt so they don’t have a problem. Right?
- The National debt: Is it a bad thing and is it too large?
- The world owes $57 trillion. Who the F*** to? Mars? Jupiter?
- The world owes $57 trillion. Who the F*** to? Mars? Jupiter? #2
- Thoughts on the Euro
- Three Sector Balances Haven’t Gone Unnoticed by the Economic Mainstream
- Tony Benn (1925 -2014) An honourary MMTer?
- Tony Benn: Every time I see a person in a cardboard box in London I think that person is a victim of market forces!
- UK Debt is a Myth!
- Unemployment, Currency, Taxation and the Job Guarantee ! The MMT view.
- Unfunded Promises? No such thing!
- Want a Budget Surplus? Easy. Devalue the Pound!
- Want to make your business card worth something? Easy. Start a protection racket!
- Warren Mosler’s Department Store Analogy – An Extension
- Warren Moslers 7 Seven Deadly Frauds of Economic Policy #1
- Warren Moslers 7 Seven Deadly Frauds of Economic Policy #2
- Warren Moslers 7 Seven Deadly Frauds of Economic Policy #3
- Warren Moslers 7 Seven Deadly Frauds of Economic Policy #4
- Warren Moslers 7 Seven Deadly Frauds of Economic Policy #5
- Warren Moslers 7 Seven Deadly Frauds of Economic Policy #6
- Warren Moslers 7 Seven Deadly Frauds of Economic Policy #7
- Wasting Resources and Wasting Money. Which is worse?
- What Is A Government Bond?
- What is the National Debt? A Ultra Short and Simple Explanation.
- What the Government don’t want you to know about taxes! But it’s easy enough to work out anyway.
- When Joe says he wants a surplus, he means for government but a deficit for everyone else!
- When Joe says he wants a surplus, he means for government but a deficit for everyone else!
- Who controls the economy?
- Who’s running the smarter economy: the UK or Germany?
- Who’s running the smarter economy: the UK or Germany? #2
- Why do they lie to you?
- Why Governments Can’t Choose to Run Balanced Budgets #2
- Why Governments Can’t Choose to Run Balanced Budgets.
- Why not give control of the fiscal deficit to the Bank of England?
- Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. (or what’s so hard about MMT)
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