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MMTAction @mmt-action.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Government-backed body to compete with private firms is the polite framing. Real question: why utilities are competing at all. A currency issuer can provision the grid as public infrastructure without bidding against the private sector. #MMT #Economics #UKPolitics

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Burnham promises to roll back privatisation with government-backed grid plan | Andy Burnham | The Guardian

Exclusive: Creation of GB Grid will be major step towards putting Britain’s utility companies into public control

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dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's almost as if politicians and economists have no idea how the economy really works. #MMT

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Umbrarchist @umbrarchist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Exactly! Consumers are supposed to go into debt for junk designed to become obsolete. That increases GDP! Then the junk depreciates which economists ignore by not having a variable for it in the NET Domestic Product equation. Repeat next year while putting more CO2 into the atmosphere.

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