Tag: UK Government spending

Blogs / MMT Lens

This is no time for despondency or pulling the duvet over our heads. This is a time to regroup in solidarity to understand the problems and find solutions; our future depends on it. Let’s organise!

This time of the year is for making new year’s resolutions and this year was no exception. A local radio channel reported that a survey had revealed that the most …

This is no time for despondency or pulling the duvet over our heads. This is a time to regroup in solidarity to understand the problems and find solutions; our future depends on it. Let’s organise! Read More
Blogs / MMT Lens

We don’t need a perfect world; we need a fairer and more equitable one. Understanding how money works is the first step.

As the election campaign rolls on and party leaders battle it out on our television screens, the Liberal Democrats commit themselves to more austerity and Paul Mason, left-wing journalist and …

We don’t need a perfect world; we need a fairer and more equitable one. Understanding how money works is the first step. Read More
Blogs / MMT Lens

The austerity prescription was not an experiment; it did not fail for the rich. Time for a rethink. Time for an economic revolution.

“Ultimately austerity has failed because it is unsupported by sound logic or data. It is an economic ideology. It stems from the belief that small government and free markets are …

The austerity prescription was not an experiment; it did not fail for the rich. Time for a rethink. Time for an economic revolution. Read More