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Submission to the “Sustainability of the UK’s national debt” Inquiry

15th September 2024

GOWER INITIATIVE FOR MODERN MONEY STUDIES – WRITTEN EVIDENCE SND0019 – SUSTAINABILITY OF THE UK’S NATIONAL DEBT INQUIRY   Introduction 1.1    The national debt has been a recurring topic …

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MMT Banking Primer

5th June 20225th June 2022

by Jonathan Wilson First published April 8, 2022, on the PMPE website (PDF). Comments may be left via the form below or sent via email to GIMMS   Modern Monetary …

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Reblog – No, MMT Didn’t Wreck Sri Lanka

15th May 2022

Debunking Bloomberg with Fadhel Kaboub Written by Stephanie Kelton Originally published on Stephanie Kelton’s “The Lens” on 29th April 2022. Last week, Bloomberg touted an opinion piece (written by one …

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Happy 25th birthday, Modern Money Theory!

28th January 202128th January 2021

A guest post by Dirk Ehnts, originally published in German here   On Monday, January 29, 1996, Warren B. Mosler, Director of Economic Analysis at III Finance, wrote a message …

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Negative Interest Rates

What are Negative Interest Rates? The Bank Rate[1] is the rate of interest that the Bank of England pays commercial banks on any money (reserves) they hold with the Bank. …

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Is world-leading NHS healthcare an affordable proposition?

5th May 20195th May 2019

In this age of fiscal austerity the viability of the NHS as a publicly funded and delivered service has been constantly called into question. Those challenging the necessity for cuts …

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Gilts and Bonds

An internet search will tell you that Bonds are savings products issued by companies and governments to raise money to fund their investments. For private entities or ‘currency-users’, this is …

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The Bond Market Doesn’t Control Anything; the Currency-Issuing National Government Does

6th January 201911th April 2023

Ellis Winningham is a retired US-based economist, Modern Monetary Theory advocate and campaigner who works with relentless passion through his website blogs and social media work to inform and raise …

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Sara Holland @sarahollando552 ·
24 Dec

True for the US
True for the U.K.
#MMT @wbmosler
@GowerInitiative

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Tally Sticks @widespreadhaze ·
26 Dec

@grenville_1 @DanielJHannan First government does not spend by printing money.

What makes us richer are the resources that are mobilised by both government and private spending.

At the global level all financial liabilities and all financial assets offset each other, cancelling to zero. What remains are

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Tally Sticks @widespreadhaze ·
26 Dec

@DanielJHannan Good question. The answer is simply that our ancestors ran a commodity based currency system: a silver standard. However, for centuries they utilised systems to bypass the silver constraint, such as ‘tallies of pro’. The ancient Exchequer of Receipt was in effect a clearing house

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Tally Sticks @widespreadhaze ·
18 Dec

The money comes from MPs votes. It’s called ‘Money from Parliament’.

You are an MP and should know this, it is your job after all.

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Pavlina R Tcherneva @ptcherneva ·
18 Dec

We call on the Indian government to recommit to MGNREGA & its demand-driven access to employment from a human rights perspective. Join me, @JosephEStiglitz, @MazzucatoM, @Ferreras_Isa, @PikettyWIL, @srpoverty, @DarrickHamilton, @Jayati1609 and other experts by signing our letter.

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