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Malcolm Reavell

@auchentrachle.bsky.social
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Ex bank employee, ex soldier, ex-aircraft engineer, ex-IT manager, now trying to put the world to rights before our leaders kill us all.

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MMTAction @mmt-action.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Phil Armstrong has spent 29 episodes unpacking the machinery we pretend is inevitable: how banks actually work, why inflation hits differently depending on who you are, what fiscal space really means. Not theory. Operational reality. #MMT #Economics
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Phil Armstrong
Phil Armstrong is an economist who has made 29 episode appearances in the MMT archive, contributing expertise across banking, finance, employment, fiscal policy, inflation, and international trade. His discussions range from foundational fiscal policy questions to comparative economic frameworks and strategic economic interventions.
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MMTAction @mmt-action.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Stop blaming the deficit. Start asking: what would actually break the economy if we spent more? This tool lets you test the real constraint on government spending. It's not the numbers in the spreadsheet. #MMT #Economics mmtaction.com/play/inflation-thresh…
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Inflation Threshold Tool
Explore the real constraints on government spending
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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Maybe the Chinese have discovered the secret of State Capitalism: that you can always print money to solve crises. And they dont only do it to protect their banks. They don't call it #MMT but even so.... #economics
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MMTAction @mmt-action.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The NHS isn't underfunded because there's no money. It's underfunded because the people in charge treat it like a household budget instead of what it is: a real-resource question. Nurses, beds, equipment, training. Build those. #MMT #Economics mmtaction.com/campaigns/causes/heal…
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Health
Fiscal orthodoxy is the hidden driver of NHS underfunding
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dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
We need a party and a leader that is not constrained by neoliberalism as Starmer and Labour are. The only party leader who shows signs that he might have a better understanding of government finances is Zack Polanski. #MMT
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mml-europe.bsky.social @mml-europe.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Austerity isn't caution. It's a choice. Cutting public spending during a downturn shrinks demand, kills jobs, and delays recovery. The 'fiscally responsible' framing is politics dressed up as economics. #MMT #EUPolicy
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Elon Musk deleted this tweet which reveals exactly who he is. But of course on the internet nothing is ever deleted.
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Jim Russell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. @jazzyrussell.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Well, this is all true!
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MMTAction @mmt-action.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
MMT isn't something you just read about. It's something you talk through. An online community is doing exactly that, every week. Bring your questions. Pull up a chair. #MMT #Economics
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This week: elections & political impact, monetary operations & banking, mmt outreach & campaigning. 138 messages from 25 members this week.
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MMTAction @mmt-action.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Stop debating tax rates. UK govt doesn't "need" that windfall tax revenue to spend. The real question: will it use fiscal space to boost demand for ordinary people, or let banks hoard while wage earners starve? #MMT #UKPolitics
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Reinstate windfall tax on banks after surge in profits, TUC urges
Unions group wants rate returned from 3% to 8% after big four UK lenders reveal £14bn total profit in first quarter
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
When you see the relentless attacks from other parties on the Greens across the media remember this: They hate our plan to end Rip Off Britain. They don't want a wealth tax. They don't want public ownership & lower bills. They're trying everything in their power to stop us.
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MMTAction @mmt-action.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Two decades of austerity wasn't inevitable. It was a choice. The UK govt is a currency issuer. It never faced a "maths problem". It chose to starve services while blaming scarcity. Stop treating poverty as physics. #MMT #UKPolitics
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More unbridled nastiness from Reform – but would it really create migrant detention centres in Green-voting areas? | Zoe Williams
What’s home affairs spokesperson Zia Yusuf playing at with his new policy? Is it about pushing Labour further to the right, or just an attempt to ramp up rage and resentment, asks Zoe Williams
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?whispers? @whispers-actual.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
BOND GILT EDGED BOND But the state is not a household; it is the scorekeeper for the currency. The “debt” was never a debt in any sense that constrained the sovereign. #MMT mmtmichael.substack.com/p/the-name-i...
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The Name is Bond: Gilt Edged Bond
From Consols to Collateral
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?whispers? @whispers-actual.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
he sheer cognitive dissonance of this arrangement—defending the right to be impaired at work while simultaneously legislating to incarcerate others for using different intoxicants—is staggering. #MMT mmtmichael.substack.com/p/time-ladie...
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Time Ladies and Gentlemen
A View from the Public Bar
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?whispers? @whispers-actual.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The “First World” did not cause Zimbabwe’s crisis, but it made it worse, longer, and harder to escape. Here Comes the Cavalry! “First World” Involvement in Zimbabwe’s Economic Crisis A Graphic Novella #MMT mmtmichael.substack.com/p/here-comes...
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Here Comes the Cavalry!
“First World” Involvement in Zimbabwe’s Economic Crisis
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?whispers? @whispers-actual.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
For more detail read here... substack.com/@mmtmichael/... #MMT
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From Pen to Pound
Turning an Act of Parliament into the Pounds in Your Pocket
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Stephen Hayes @stephenaytch.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
#ModernMonetaryTheory is THE KEY to EVERYTHING we want - if like me, you too are a progressive and a socialist. So? So, #LearnMMT! U N D E R S T A N D #MMT. #SharedEconomy #ResourceBasedEconomy #Limitarianism #macroeconomics #RealProgressives #MacroNCheese youtube.com/shorts/J_ERH...
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Can We Vote Out Capitalism?
YouTube video by Real Progressives
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MMTAction @mmt-action.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
10 out of 11 major mainstream economic predictions we've assessed were wrong. Not slightly off. Wrong. Austerity. QE inflation. Japan's "debt crisis." The 90% debt cliff. With #scoteconfest this weekend, time to look at the receipts. #MMT 🧵
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MMTAction @mmt-action.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Next time someone says "we can't afford it" or "the bond markets won't allow it," show them the track record of the people making those claims. Browse predictions, filter by outcome, check any predictor's accuracy score. The record speaks for itself. #MMT #scoteconfest
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Eddy Canfor-Dumas @ec-d.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Look what I found. open.substack.com/pub/frapacio...
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?whispers? @whispers-actual.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Full Faith and Credit Why State Power, Not Markets, Determines the Fate of Money #MMT mmtmichael.substack.com/p/full-faith...
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Full Faith and Credit
Why State Power, Not Markets, Determines the Fate of Money
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Real Progressives @realprogressives.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
NEW!! 🎧 MMT & Marxist class analysis can complement each other when 💵 is understood as a tool of the state rather than an ideology. Anthony Anastasi & @austerityismurder.bsky.social take on common Marxist critiques of #MMT & what China’s political economy reveals about monetary sovereignty & power.
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Episode 364 - State Money, Class Struggle with Anthony Anastasi
Anthony W. D. Anastasi, an economist based in China, believes that MMT and Marxist class analysis can complement each other when money is understood as a tool of the state rather than an ideology. He ...
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?whispers? @whispers-actual.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
NHS We can't afford the unaffordability myth... #MMT medium.com/@malcolmreav...
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The death of the NHS? Or the death of neoliberalism? Your choice.
A recent article posted on Medium predicts the NHS is going to die because it is unaffordable. Sadly that rather long article displays…
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ChrisB @chrisb2024.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
MMT threatens vested interests in the economy and in economics, that's why we can't talk about it. This is great from @spborden.bsky.social #MMT open.substack.com/pub/susanbor...
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Not an Economic Question but a Question about Economics
Why Can’t We Discuss MMT?
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Malcolm Reavell @auchentrachle.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
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Malcolm Reavell @auchentrachle.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
James Tobin's conversation with JFK that shows he understood in 1962 that the deficit was not constrained numerically but by available resource limits, and that gold was not needed to sustain a currency. Council of Economic Advisers Oral History Interview static.jfklibrary.org/5lm2g465mk0l...
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Random Wanderer 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 @randomwanderer1.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
A really clear explanation of what Government 'debt' actually is and why it's nothing at all to be concerned about. From @auchentrachle.bsky.social, Modern Money Scotland: www.thenational.scot/news/2564668... #MMT
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There’s a lot of misinformation and scaremongering about government debt
An image currently doing the rounds from the Visual Capitalist website shows Japan sitting in the middle of indebted nations with a whopping 230…
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Malcolm Reavell @auchentrachle.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
We don't need to "tax the rich". We don't need "a wealth tax". We need to tax wealth. There's a difference. Excess wealth permits a distortion of political power and command of earth's natural resources. We don't need taxes of the rich to pay for anything. We just don't need or want the rich.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
These are self imposed fiscal rules. Self imposed. Labour are choosing to push 50,000 children into poverty to signal to wealth & capital that they're on their side. Disgusting. Sick. Broken.
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Carol Wilcox @redcazza.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
That's how I'm going to start my article for Labour Briefing
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Malcolm Reavell @auchentrachle.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
A reminder that Thatcher's "government as household" analogy traps us in a degenrate narrative that will always end in austerity.
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Malcolm Reavell @auchentrachle.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
These quotes keep surfacing. The creator and issuer of the "greenback", he apparently didn't like paying interest to private banks. This is from a speech made after the civil war, and shortly before he was assassinated.
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David McNab @mcfab59.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
There is no need for ‘fiscal’ rules - just resource/inflationary rules. The UK Govt never need worry about the money. It should focus instead on two questions: Do we have the resources, skills and labour to do it? Will it be inflationary?
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angtraders.bsky.social @angtraders.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Every brain creates its own reality. There are consequences to creating false realities. Austerity kills economies and people.
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Paul Scholes @misterp55.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
In other words “fiscal rules” are put in place to make sure we keep believing that the gov’t needs us to pay it tax, or lend it money, before it can spend. But how does that work for pensioners, teachers, nurses, weapons manufacturers etc, who are paid by gov’t and only then can pay tax or lend £s?
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Carol Wilcox @redcazza.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Streeting is a monster like the rest of Starmer's mob. How many people, especially children, do you know who are suffering some form of mental disability? It wasn't like this before - when was it?
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Malcolm Reavell @auchentrachle.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
There’s no “National credit card”, there no such thing as “taxpayer money”. Taxes are not a funding mechanism. There’s no operational dependency on what government taxes to what it can spend. It can never run out of £, or go bust. Ever. And “fiscal rules” are complete nonsense.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
SNP MP calls for Trump state visit to be scrapped. Others should support. Unhinged felon must not be honoured. 34 felony convictions in New York alone. Dodged prison because his billionaire pals helped him win election. Risk of mass social disorder, if the visit goes ahead.
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SNP MP calls for Trump state visit to be scrapped
A second state visit cannot go ahead if the US president does not show further support for Ukraine, Stephen Gethins says.
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David McNab @mcfab59.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
@russincheshire.bsky.social could learn how our monetary system operates - as could all. Byline Times contributors. The UK is a fiat currency issuing state. It spends money into existence and taxes some of that money out of existence. Ergo - taxes do not, and cannot, ‘fund’ spending. #LearnMMT
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David McNab @mcfab59.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
No it wouldn’t. It would destroy £30billion of the wealthiest’s money and give them £30bn less to bribe politicians. That’s it. The money deleted does not affect our govt’s ability to create £s. While you spread the tax-payer myth, you hand Reeves the wiggle-room to plead poverty. #LearnMMT
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Patricia Pino @patriciapino.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Un the context of endogenous money, it is far more likely that the money supply responds to inflation. And not vice-versa.
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David McNab @mcfab59.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
👇🏻😳👇🏻 Did you know that the UK Govt hands bankers and financiers £100bn of newly created money every, single year for having enough spare money to buy bonds. This process has zero benefits for us. By 2050 it will be close to 2.5 £trillion. Just handed to the rich for nowt. #LearnMMT
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?whispers? @whispers-actual.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
"For those who want a 5 minute explanation"
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Stephanie Kelton - "We can, and must, tax the rich. But not because we can't afford to do anything without them. We should tax billionaires to rebalance the distributions of wealth and income and to protect the health of our democracy" France to introduce a 2% wealth tax on those worth over €100m.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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Mark Cuban Says U.S. Healthcare Is 'Horrific'—Calls for Free Medical School to Fix Doctor Shortages and Soaring Costs
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Malcolm Reavell @auchentrachle.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
It’s not true what the grocer’s daughter said. This may be a shock, but there’s no such thing as “taxpayer money”. She lied. There’s only government money, and if government doesn’t spend enough money into the economy, taxpayers don’t have money to pay taxes. Or live on.🧵👇
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@lizglab.bsky.social @lizglab.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
New Essay! 🗣️ ✨ Money is Not a Medium of Exchange ✨ Contra the "exchange" paradigm linked to myths of barter, Jens Martignoni argues that we must reconceive money as an inherently collective project and rethink monetary functions as resulting from political design. Please read & share! 👩‍💻 🙌
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Money is Not a Medium of Exchange
by Jens Martignoni With this brief provocation, Jens Martignoni develops a suggestion first put forth in an essay published in the International Journal of Community Currency Research (IJCCR). Ther…
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