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Tag: deficit elimination

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What is the real burden that the government’s “hard choices” will pass on to future generations?

11th October 202011th October 2020

Instead of more political rhetoric and more of the same orthodox solutions dressed up as change, we need radical progressive action to pave the way for a kinder, more equable …

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Time to worry less (or better not at all) about the national debt and challenge the government’s economic record instead.

27th September 202027th September 2020

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters. Antonio Gramsci In the week that the Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced …

Time to worry less (or better not at all) about the national debt and challenge the government’s economic record instead. Read More
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We pay for it by spending the money

22nd August 202026th November 2022

We would like to share an article by GIMMS associate Alan Hutchison.  This article was posted on his excellent website Matches in the Dark here. I use this as supporting …

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Blogs / MMT Lens

What sort of future do you want for yourself and your children? If it’s not more of the same, then it’s time for some radical thinking. 

1st August 2020

Three common neoliberal threads run through this week’s news: How will the enormous sums of money borrowed by the government to hold up the Covid-19 ailing economy be paid for? …

What sort of future do you want for yourself and your children? If it’s not more of the same, then it’s time for some radical thinking.  Read More
Blogs / MMT Lens

To rephrase Mahatma Gandhi ‘The future will depend on what we do today.’

21st June 2020

Just a brief look at the news headlines in the last few weeks should be enough to set the alarm bells ringing. We are watching as the nation suffers a …

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Blogs / MMT Lens

The government’s spending promises have shown the need for austerity is a lie and a sham. It’s time to hold the government to account for its political decisions, not its fiscal prudence or otherwise.

15th March 202015th March 2020

In 2010 the newly elected Conservative government, using smoke and mirrors, turned what was a private debt crisis caused by global reckless greed and speculation by financial markets into a …

The government’s spending promises have shown the need for austerity is a lie and a sham. It’s time to hold the government to account for its political decisions, not its fiscal prudence or otherwise. Read More
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#RethinkMoney – The Greatest Lie Ever Told (Probably)…#TaxAndSpend

15th December 2019

GIMMS is delighted to have permission from blogger Duncan Poundcake to reblog his article which was originally posted here   So what have we learned from the General Election of …

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The time has come to talk of many things; of taxing and spending and an economic system that needs mending. 

1st December 2019

In the news, the Prime Minister tells millions of  WASPI women affected by the changes to the state pension age that he couldn’t promise to magic up the money for …

The time has come to talk of many things; of taxing and spending and an economic system that needs mending.  Read More
Blogs / MMT Long Read

The Rise of the Right

20th November 201920th November 2019

GIMMS is pleased to be able to present for our MMT Long Read two chapters of the book “The Rise of the Right – English nationalism and the transformation of …

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Blogs / MMT Lens

Getting our priorities right. Our planet or our lives.

21st September 201921st September 2019

This week’s MMT Lens will necessarily be shorter as GIMMS is gearing up for a busy few weeks in Brighton, London, Manchester and Leeds not to mention Wales at the …

Getting our priorities right. Our planet or our lives. Read More

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Stephanie Kelton @stephaniekelton ·
12 Dec

@PatriciaNPino Zack needs to explain that gilts are a privilege not an economic imperative or a fundamental human right. Say he’s prepared to take the privilege away (or return to tap system) if bond holders abuse it, and that he will not be intimidated because he understands that the purpose…

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Steven Hail @stevenhailaus ·
12 Dec

We have terrific students

McAlindon, R. 2025.  The Price of Profit - An Analysis of Pandemic-Era Inflation, the Cost-of-Living Crisis and Government Policy in the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland. MML Working Paper No. 9, December 2025

https://modernmoneylab.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/MML-Working-Paper-No-9-Dec-2025.pdf

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Steven Hail @stevenhailaus ·
12 Dec

More foolish propaganda from self-satisfied people who think everything is fine the way it is and that they have nothing to learn.

MMT is no 'conspiracy theory' and does NOT say govts should 'print and spend as much money as they like'.

Only an idiot or knave would claim so.

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Patricia @patricianpino ·
11 Dec

@spikedonline MMT isn't a conspiracy theory, nor does it say the government can print and spend as much money as they like. One expects more from journalists. Please interview an MMT economist.

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Stephanie Kelton @stephaniekelton ·
9 Dec

“The Government can always create the money it needs to fund any project that it thinks is worthwhile. And the claim that it was cheaper for the private sector to fund these activities than for the State to do so was very obviously completely and utterly wrong.”

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