Ex morning star paperboy. Work with and always amazed by young people. Views sometimes my own.
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The market has failed to manage our water system, only democracy can turn it around.
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Disappointing, but not surprising if we don't know how UK govt finances itself. What else can they do but perpetuate debt myths. Maybe they believe them. I hope the climate crisis is delayed too. #MMT, @RachelReevesMP
Labour govt to delay £28bn green fund. theguardian.com/politics/202…
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I have voted for @Bumba Foundation, We Will Grow at the @CharityFilm_, https://:xitter.cf/BumbaF smileymovement.org/single-aw… #CharityFilmAwards #smileymovement via @SmileyNews
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@bbc5live @chriswarburton_ Hi Chris. The Govt doesn't spend our taxes. Every penny it spends is newly issued money. It taxes to make space in the economy for its spending. Read The Deficit Myth by @StephanieKelton or listen to the interview with @TherealNihal
It would be great drama to see the Monarch deposit a coin at the bank of England, after opening Parliament, to fund the Govt's programme. Like the US Treasury, the UK Treasury can issue coins of any denomination. Read @NathanTankus in the Guardian. theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Labour's plan: Look and sound more like the Tory party. Spin informed by market research. Feels strangely familiar. theguardian.com/politics/202…
Where is the safest place to store your hard earned / ill gotten billions? bbc.co.uk/news/business-5050…
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A national debt of 2.1 trillion. About 40% is owed by one branch of govt to another.
If you have savings your bank is in debt to you. Worried it can't pay it back? That's pretty much what a govt bond is. Savings at the BoE for FIs. @faisalislam
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Great thread about money creation
I keep hearing people complain that the ‘mainstream media’ does not understand economics and that we’re talked down to as if everything must be explained as if the economy is a household. In this thread I explain all you (and they) need to know. Economics in one thread then....
Unless notes are sitting in a bank or cash machine how could the BoE know where they are? Here's my guess: purses and wallets, pockets, jam jars, envelopes, safes, buried in plastic bags, back of sofas and shoe boxes
theguardian.com/business/202…
@Channel4News Hard to watch report after report continue the myths that the Government can run out of money, that tax funds spending and that Government debt is unsustainable. None of this is true. #MMT
"Andy what part of the business are you in?" No part. I work in a charity not a commercial enterprise.
Anyone who thinks the state is neutral should read this. It turns out that campaigning for peace and social justice is so dangerous that police surveillance is necessary.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2020…
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