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4 Aug 2021
An Accounting Model of the UK Exchequer – 2nd edition gimms.org.uk/2021/02/21/an-a…
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Andrew Berkeley retweeted
May 29
You fundamentally just wouldn't be allowed to say this on British TV.
Well done to Richie Sadlier.
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I have no idea what you're referring to. I mean the DMO does things that MMTers disagree with, like adhering to the Full Funding Rule and religiously avoiding the Ways and Means account. But no MMTer pretends this isn't the case. They just point out it's policy choice not law.
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And they point out that this choice is motivated by monetary policy - interest rate targetting - rather than fiscal policy. The DMO is fully an arm of monetary policy as is the entire apparatus of government interest payments. MMTers just want the debate to reflect this.
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Andrew Berkeley retweeted
MMT Richard Murphy recently published a critique of the core policy at the heart of MMT: the Job Guarantee. It was reasoned and balanced, but we believe misrepresented the Job Guarantee in key areas. Here is our response. mmtuk.org/research/briefings…
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Andrew Berkeley retweeted
Our UK Job Guarantee paper is now available.
It shows how the UK could end involuntary unemployment, strengthen local economies and anchor wages.
Read the paper: mmtuk.org/job-guarantee
Support this research: mmtuk.org/donate #MMT
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Andrew Berkeley retweeted
1/5 MMTUK has published its Job Guarantee policy paper today.
A permanent, voluntary programme offering paid work at a living wage to anyone willing and able to work.
Up to 4 million people are expected to directly benefit. #MMT #JobGuarantee #UKjobs
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Andrew Berkeley retweeted
Jan 13
Central banks present themselves as neutral technocratic guardians of “stability”. But their tools, interest rate changes, deliberately shape emplymnt, housing, and investmnt. These are political choices and far from neutral. They certainly don't serve the interest of the public.
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The ECB and other European and international central banks stand in full solidarity with the Federal Reserve System and its Chair Jerome H. Powell.
The independence of central banks is in the interest of the people we serve.
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RT @shannonrwatts: The owners of the 400,000,000 guns in America appear to be allowing fascists to take over the nation without a fight, so…
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4 Dec 2025
This will be worth attending. I intend to...
1 Dec 2025
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scoteconfest.org/ 1/2
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Andrew Berkeley retweeted
6 Mar 2024
At the BBC we've had a whole independent review which made it very clear we shouldn't use profoundly misleading household finance analogies for the public finances. But now the Labour front bench keeps doing it. And it's not the first time: theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Labour's Darren Jones states that his party is committed to austerity as the Tories 'have spent all the money and maxed out the country's credit card'
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Andrew Berkeley retweeted
27 Nov 2025
How could #EU fiscal rules pushing #austerity weaken #Scotland as a potential independent nation & why is it so crucial to #LearnMMT w/ #PoliticalEconomy according to @williamgallus? New ep. drops Sat. 11/29 @8 am ET.
Find all our ep. @ realprogressives.org/macro-n…
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Andrew Berkeley retweeted
4 Oct 2025
Every other police force can hang their heads in utter shame.....in Milan they marched with the protesters
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Andrew Berkeley retweeted
22 Sep 2025
Netanyahu message to those who recognise Palestine 🇵🇸:
‘It will not happen’
‘We have prevented it with determination & political guile’
‘We have doubled 🇮🇱 [illegal] settlements in the West Bank 🇵🇸’
‘🇮🇱 will respond’
Illegal. Sinister. Evil.
Israel 🇮🇱 is a terrorist state.
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Andrew Berkeley retweeted
If you want a great introduction to UK government accounting, read this 2020 study by Andrew Berkeley, Richard Tye and Neil Wilson.
gimms.org.uk/2021/02/21/an-a…
But is there a more intuitive representation of accounts like the ones below?
A 🧵.
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Andrew Berkeley retweeted
Hi all. Can I ask you for your thoughts on this illustration of ch 4 of Berkeley, Tye & Wilson's "Accounting Model of the UK Exchequer"? Thanks.
@spatchcockable @PhilArmstrong58 @HenricCont @GeorgeSelgin @BobMurphyEcon @RelearningEcon @profstevekeen
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If you want a great introduction to UK government accounting, read this 2020 study by Andrew Berkeley, Richard Tye and Neil Wilson.
gimms.org.uk/2021/02/21/an-a…
But is there a more intuitive representation of accounts like the ones below?
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Andrew Berkeley retweeted
18 Sep 2025
Where did those US investors get £150 billion from? It must be the Bank of England, which is the monopoly supplier of pound sterling. The UK government can create all the £ it needs at all times. There is no need to wait for "US investment".
18 Sep 2025
Labour is creating thousands of high quality British jobs, through a record-breaking £150 billion of US investment.
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Andrew Berkeley retweeted
17 Sep 2025
The day the UN accuses Israel of Genocide, 106 Palestinians are killed and there is barely a squeak about it most of the Western media...
16 Sep 2025
BREAKING: At least 106 killed by Israel in Gaza today, medical sources say
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/bdkjml?update=3954776
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17 Sep 2025
RT @DoubleDownNews: We are so sorry to post this, but
This is what world leaders are letting Israel do to children every day
This is the…
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Andrew Berkeley retweeted
9 Sep 2025
Israel has bombed and apparently wiped out the Hamas negotiating team in Qatar.
Insane.
The behaviour of an unhinged state, trashing the most rudimentary norms of international law.
This underlines that Israel is intent on completing the genocidal extermination of Gaza.
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Andrew Berkeley retweeted
9 Sep 2025
Bit hard to see how you can ever negotiate peace with a country that bombs other countries to kill your negotiators. Israel is determined to avoid peace talks.
Israel military launches strikes against Hamas leaders in Qatar's capital Doha trib.al/1s1ZQa1
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