The UK's first MMT policy organisation. Evidence-based research on how government spending really works. Briefings for policymakers, analysis for everyone.
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Joined January 2026
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(1/5) This week @TheGreenParty UK adopted a fiscal framework guided by real resources; not arbitrary debt targets. MMTUK welcomes this exciting new approach.
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How the UK fights inflation: Interest rate rises kill businesses; people are laid off. A Job Guarantee buffer stock anchors prices without destroying demand or peoples' lives.
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(1/4) MMT Forum 2026 is on Friday 18 December in London. One day for MMT academics, activists and campaigners, convened by Resilient Economy, MMTUK and MMTAction. Join us.
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(3/4) The closing session will shape a communications strategy for the movement in 2027. Then drinks. Every talk will be filmed, but places in the room are limited.
(4/4) Friday 18 December, 9:30am to 6pm, ISH Venues, 229 Great Portland St, London. Our forum needs people who want to make MMT heard. Follow the link to get your ticket.
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(1/5) Murphy and Armstrong reach similar UK policy conclusions on trade: less import dependence, a smaller City, more domestic investment. They start from different places. That difference is worth understanding.
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(4/5) This is a refinement within a shared heterodox project, not a dispute between opponents. Post-Keynesian and MMT work both reject surplus-fetishism. We differ on starting point, not direction.
(5/5) The base case is also qualified by planetary boundaries and by real terms of trade. Trade volume is not the goal.
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Imports are real benefits. Exports are real costs. For a currency issuer, a trade deficit is extra real resources, not a financial weakness. Our briefing sets out the base case for analysis.
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Exports are real costs. Imports are real benefits. For a currency issuer, a trade deficit means the UK receives more real goods than it sends abroad. Our paper sets out the base case for analysis.
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Try this: when the UK government runs a deficit, the private sector gains the same amount in net financial assets. Buffer-stock employment turns that into work. State funded work is guaranteed in economic downturns.
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Twelve talks. One room. Friday 18 December, London. MMT FORUM brings the UK's MMT community together, then plans our 2027 strategy. Places are limited. Bring your ideas - get your ticket.
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Stephen Laughton's The Money Sham traces how flawed ideas about money have shaped UK policy for generations. Stephanie Kelton calls it "sharp, accessible and genuinely important." Read our briefing.
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The UK is a currency issuer. Treating the public purse like a household budget is a category error, and it makes policy worse. Why MMT starts from how money actually works.
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(1/5) The Centre for Social Justice calls welfare an “economic opiate”: a painkiller that masks poor economic performance, and a drug that hooks claimants into “dependency”. This misreads the cause of joblessness and the role of welfare in the economy. 🧵
(4/5) When CSJ talks of “encouraging” work and volunteering within the benefit system, it means work for your benefits. This assumes sick and disabled people are fit to work, then forces them to work for less than the minimum wage.
(5/5) Investment and job creation must come first. Welfare spending will fall when those seeking employment can access good jobs. MMTUK PRG suggests a voluntary Job Guarantee at £15/hr for anyone able and looking for work.
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