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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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Patricia @patricianpino ·
2 Dec

A short🧵 on MMT & power: First and foremost MMT is a description & does not contain a prescribed pathway for working class liberation. That was not what MMT as a theory set out to do. However, even a description has political implications & here I set out a couple. >

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Steven Hail @stevenhailaus ·
2 Dec

This nonsense is a symptom of living within an essentially barter/full employment model, and having no understanding of monetary systems and balance sheet mechanics, let alone having a view of how people think which is in defiance of reality.

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Steven Hail @stevenhailaus ·
2 Dec

Oh, my God.

You are trying my patience beyond its limit

The institutional set-up in the UK clearly involves currency issuance

Read this, in the Journal of Economic Issues - The Self-Financing State: An Institutional Analysis of... the United Kingdom:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00213624.2025.2533726

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Warren B. Mosler @wbmosler ·
1 Dec

@WolfgangWa1642 @pontus_rendahl I 'invented'/developed what's popularized as MMT.
I'd never read Keynes (or any of the others). It all came from my capital markets experience.
Still does.
Keynes never recognized the source of the price level, or had the understanding that tax liabilities cause unemployment.

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Steven Hail @stevenhailaus ·
1 Dec

Incidentally, something similar happened a couple of years later, when I was preparing people for the Chartered Institute of Bankers qualifying exams. A banker said 'great course, but you know it doesn't work like that, don't you?'. Again, I later learned he (and MMT) was right.

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