Structural Deficits Are Deflationary

There is far more inflationary pressure from government spending that causes an increase in taxes than from deficit spending

17 Aug 2023 12:22 +0100 · 7 min · NeilW

MMT Verify: is there pressure on the Russian Economy?

We’ve had mostly floating exchange rates for fifty years. You’d think by now people would report using the correct currency

14 Aug 2023 15:45 +0100 · 2 min · NeilW

Cutting Borrowing Costs Made Simple: End Interest Payments

Two titans of UK politics face off over government interest payments, while completely missing the obvious answer: stop giving rich people free money

5 Aug 2023 07:36 +0100 · 2 min · NeilW

MMT Verify: How We Can Staff the NHS Without Tax Rises

Spending only happens if there was something to buy. If that spending is then deficit spending it has a lower inflationary impact than spending that is tax-matched.

25 Jul 2023 10:40 +0100 · 8 min · NeilW

Sophistry or Shibboleth? - "Capital Flight"

Time for another exercise in mythbusting. It turns out it is very difficult for something that cannot move to fly. Who knew?

18 Jul 2023 07:50 +0100 · 3 min · NeilW

MMT Verify: Will Investors Shun Government Debt?

There is no risk that interest rates on UK government debt will reach crippling levels. Interest rates are policy variables. Paying interest is a political choice. Betteridge’s law of headlines applies.

16 Jul 2023 08:39 +0100 · 3 min · NeilW

MMT Basics: Interest Rates

Bill Mitchell explains how MMT sees the effect of Interest Rate changes on the economy

26 Jun 2023 08:21 +0100 · 5 min · NeilW

Sophistry or Shibboleth? - "Printing Money"

Here’s the real reason ‘asset managers’ object to ‘printing money’

28 May 2023 10:21 +0100 · 3 min · NeilW

GIMMS Book Launch

MMT presentation in London on 20th April 2023

18 Apr 2023 11:21 +0100 · 1 min · NeilW

Eliminating the cost of the Asset Purchase Indemnity

The Asset Purchase Facility has landed HM Treasury with a ~£90 billion bill over the next two year. This paper lays out an approach that requires no further vote funding from Parliament, no additional debt interest payments, and restores “postive cash flow” from the APF for the remainder of this Parliament.

27 Dec 2022 08:32 +0000 · 7 min · NeilW