Colin and I ceased working together in early 2025when out work was heading in differem directions, and Ann Pettifor took the opportunity of that to suggest I should no longer be involved in this rump of a group because she has always had an incomprehensible and visceral loathing of what she thinks modern monetary theory says, largely because she has never bothered to actually read what its major thinkers, including me, have had to say on the subject.
Didn’t the grant run out for him and Colin? And of course Anne’s off doing something else because of Anne, not Spud. As always just does seem to happen.
Suely that should be “its so-called thinkers, including me”?
If you serially fall out with everybody in everything you participate in, or even things you started, then it’s bound to be everybody else’s fault.
“she has always had an incomprehensible and visceral loathing of what she thinks modern monetary theory says, largely because she has never bothered to actually read what its major thinkers, including me, have had to say on the subject.”
It’s everyone else that’s wrong about infinite money printing.
He has the solution to that. Because everything is his “world” should be rationed, excess demand would be curtailed so demand does not rise above supply thus hyperinflation and the need for infinite money printing is avoided. Indeed money would cease to have any relevance as you couldn’t buy anything with it other that what his rations permit. Equality would be achieved and we all could be equally dirt poor.
Ah, just like the Soviet Union. Which collapsed, a bankrupt shithole of empty shelves and queues for everything.
He’s a genius.
All in one sentence, as well. Spud does for writing what fish do for bicycle races.
“its major thinkers, including me“ ………
That’s probably one of the most damming inditements of MMT ever written.
Green New Deal started 2008 ish – says lets print money and spend on green stuff.
Pettifor’s in the group and always had, has always had, a loathing for what MMT says.
MMT being something Spud didn’t hear about until 2013.
Make it make sense.
“Major thinkers.” That tells you all you need to know about his narcissism.
It’s hilarious. And also reassuring to know the country’s most obnoxious twat does eventually fall out with everyone.
So modest to describe himself as a major thinker
A neat example of ‘Who’s the arsehole?’ theory
Perhaps everyone else fell out with him because the grant ran out and so there was no more money?
Although this assumes that money flowed from him to someone else, which for a grifter is anathema.
Colin cries himself to sleep every night.