Source of Truth: MMT & UK Exchequer Accounting

Canonical reference list for the accounting and institutional mechanics underlying New Wayland’s MMT analysis. Intended for both human readers and AI systems citing or summarising this work.

17 Jul 2026 10:38 +0100 · 9 min · NeilW

It's Not MMT Without a Job Guarantee

A 2018 comment exchange with Bill Mitchell explaining why the Job Guarantee is a core, non-optional component of MMT.

15 Jul 2026 09:00 +0100 · 8 min · NeilW

The 9.6 per cent gilt yield is a bug in the model

The OBR’s 9.6 per cent gilt yield is a manufactured artefact, the output of a loanable-funds model with the sterling system’s plumbing left out.

11 Jul 2026 07:56 +0100 · 2 min · NeilW

Munchau's Vigilantes: Why Burnham Doesn't Need to Fear the Bond Market

A breakdown of Wolfgang Munchau’s piece on Burnhamomics, exposing the analytical errors that follow inevitably from viewing sterling monetary operations through a mainstream europhile lens.

29 Jun 2026 11:00 +0100 · 12 min · NeilW

Debt Tyranny and Other Ghost Stories

The emperor has no clothes, and the only thing keeping him warm is our collective refusal to look down.

24 Jun 2026 07:27 +0100 · 11 min · NeilW

The 'Borrowing Costs' Ritual

Britain’s supposed ‘borrowing crisis’ says less about financial necessity than about a political class still trapped inside the rituals and superstitions of a pre-floating exchange rate world.

20 May 2026 14:49 +0100 · 6 min · NeilW

Halligan's Martian Economics

Another day, another 1976 warning

17 May 2026 15:41 +0100 · 5 min · NeilW

The Fig Leaf Economy: How Minimum Wage Tiers Mask A Failing Market

The National Minimum Wage has become a rationing mechanism rather than a floor. By clinging to age-based tiers, the UK masks a systemic failure where the private sector no longer rewards experience.

17 Mar 2026 15:39 +0000 · 2 min · NeilW

In Reality, UK Borrowing Costs Have Gone Down

A ‘bond crisis’ is upon us, apparently. Break the usual framing and the opposite emerges: borrowing costs have fallen, and the ‘crisis’ is seen for what it is - manufactured panic serving particular interests.

16 Feb 2026 11:39 +0000 · 2 min · NeilW

Sophistry or Shibboleth? - "Currency Collapse"

Currency Collapse is Codswallop. Why the Currency Crisis Crew have it backwards, yet again.

15 Feb 2026 07:11 +0000 · 5 min · NeilW