What critics get wrong about MMT
Modern monetary theory, or MMT, is frequently attacked for supposedly saying that governments can print unlimited amounts of money, ignore inflation, abandon taxation, accumulate e...
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Modern monetary theory, or MMT, is frequently attacked for supposedly saying that governments can print unlimited amounts of money, ignore inflation, abandon taxation, accumulate e...
Exploring how interest rates and foreign exchange could affect spending choices in an MMT-aware currency issuer.
What would actually change if the UK had a government that understood modern monetary theory? In one sense, very little: MMT describes how our monetary Read the full article...
What would happen to foreign exchange, imports and exports if the UK had a government that understood modern monetary theory? Would money leave Britain because Read the full articl...
When will modern monetary theory actually be put into practice? My answer is that politicians will adopt MMT when they desperately need an alternative to Read the full article...
Richard Murphy makes the case for MMT in the aftermath of one of several looming crises.
I saw something on the GMO website "Triple Mandate A credit-allocation problem the Fed never asked for, and the two-act show investors must position for. By Henry Peabody", that I...
Does creating more money cause inflation? We are repeatedly told that “money printing” inevitably pushes prices higher. But that claim misunderstands both how modern money Read the...
@ Wayne, Yes, I agree with the MM theory of taxation. It's needed to give a value to the currency which is consistent with saying that taxation adjustments are a way varying th...
The strongest opposition that I received on LinkedIn, and elsewhere, to my suggestion that we need not worry about the UK’s national debt as it Read the full article...
This comment was made on this blog by someone whom I presume is a right-wing troll in response to my suggestion that we should not worry Read the full article...
I am pleased to announce that Funding the Future is now involved in promoting another event. We are not the lead organisers on this occasion, Read the full article...
An apparently needed debunking of well-disproven theories that assert that money supply growth generates inflation.
@Peter Martin, “ If we want higher public debts we should also want higher interest rates to encourage the two non government sectors to save more” MMT doesn’t “want” higher...
I am often asked to post the infographics separately, so I will: And: How to expand this image Press CTRL or Command and the Plus Read the full article...
My View on … Money Richard J Murphy September 2026 ________________ This post is part of an ongoing series in which I set out my Read the full article...
Debunking one of the pet memes of elite-serving finance orthodoxy: that national debt of a currency issuer should be seen as a problem.
Apropos of nothing except current (financial system) events (Fall teaching), some pictures to elicit thoughts. Debt rising fast even at full employment Stock market near peak? Fed...
cont / ......to be about that. Of course if everyone ran a ZIRP or close to it it wouldn't be an issue. So, my question is to ask if it is politically realistic to expect the...
How to expand this image If you press CTRL or Command and the Plus (+) key on your keyboard, your browser should increase the size Read the full article...
I've been interested to see recent proposals that increasing compulsory superannuation be considered as an alternative to the RBA thick stick of rate rises to curb demand driven in...
How to expand this image If you press CTRL or Command and the Plus (+) key on your keyboard, your browser should increase the size Read the full article...
From The Guardian letter’s page today 8.X.2026 “Sirs, Larry Elliott’s column on the rightwing economic myths constraining Andy Burnham’s government should be required reading...
Dear Bill, Thanks for your reply. I learned my Economics through MMT, and mainly through doing your quizzes every week, so I'm nearly always in agreement with you. I'm a Physici...
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