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What is Modern Money Theory (MMT)?

MMT describes how the economy works. Although MMT does not prescribe government policy, there are some “natural” consequences. Some MMT core points are below.

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Posts from Bill Mitchell – Modern Monetary Theory

  • Majority of Australians want fiscal deficits to be maintained and the majority of younger Australians want to ditch capitalism
    on 3 April 2025 by bill

    We are now full-swing into the national election campaign in Australia (election on May 3, 2025) and we have a new party – the Trumpet of Patriots – (funded by a property developer/miner) channelling Trump’s approach, the conservatives channelling Trump’s approach (although with a slight more subtle voice but not much), the Greens chasing their…

  • The hollowing out of the middle class in the US and beyond
    on 31 March 2025 by bill

    The Post WW2 period was marked by the mass consumption boom and the rise of the ‘middle class’, which is a sociological designation that is intended to say that the working class had segments that had experienced better conditions and outcomes than the labouring cohorts. The fact that Capital (as a class) deigned to concede…

  • What is the purpose of fiscal policy? Don’t ask Rachel Reeves!
    on 27 March 2025 by bill

    It’s been a week of grand fiscal statements. Tuesday, it was for Australia as I discussed yesterday – Australian fiscal statement – rising unemployment amidst a moderate fiscal contraction (March 26, 2025). Then yesterday in the UK, the Labour Chancellor delivered the British Government’s – Spring Statement 2025. Both statements come at a time when…

  • Australian fiscal statement – rising unemployment amidst a moderate fiscal contraction
    on 26 March 2025 by bill

    Last night (March 25, 2025), the Australian government delivered the latest fiscal statement for 2025-26 (aka – The Budget – and, in doing so tried to win renewed electoral appeal given its waning popularity and a national election that has to be held in the next 6 or so weeks. So it offered the tax…

  • The Far Right opposition to the euro in Germany has nothing to do with MMT
    on 24 March 2025 by bill

    Edward Elgar, my sometime publisher, is interested in me updating my 2015 book – Eurozone Dystopia: Groupthink and Denial on a Grand Scale (published May 2015). I have held them off for a few years because there have been notable developments such as Brexit, COVID-19, and more since I finished that work, which are still…

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