This week in MMT: 5 Oct to 11 Oct 2026
Framing
30 opposing-frame mentions against 7 MMT and MMT-consistent mentions over the last 4 weeks.
Provisional Keyword matches; framing was not yet published when this summary was built.
Opposing frames on the move
| Idea | This week | 4-week average | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taxpayers' money | 349 | 256.0 | Rising |
| Magic money tree | 51 | 24.3 | Rising |
| How will you pay for it? | 22 | 32.5 | Falling |
| Household budget | 30 | 39.8 | Falling |
| Maxed-out credit card | 5 | 9.3 | Falling |
| Fiscal black hole | 6 | 8.5 | Falling |
MMT ideas on the move
| Idea | This week | 4-week average | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| Currency issuer | 64 | 72.3 | Steady |
| MMT by name | 109 | 103.8 | Steady |
| Taxes don't fund spending | 7 | 12.3 | Falling |
| Sectoral balances | 1 | 4.3 | Falling |
| Spend first, tax later | 18 | 15.5 | Steady |
| Deficit myth | 15 | 13.3 | Steady |
| Job guarantee | 25 | 26.0 | Steady |
| Real resource limit | 30 | 29.3 | Steady |
| Functional finance | 11 | 11.5 | Steady |
| Deficit = private surplus | 1 | 0.8 | Rising |
Voices this week
Public figures who used the tracked ideas. Nobody else is ever named.
- Ángel Monteagudo 3 mentions · 3 MMT ideas
Worth reading
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Heathrow’s third runway is a bottomless money pit. Stop it now
It won’t promote growth, will take decades and will swallow up billions of taxpayers’ money, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins Infrastructure sends politicians berserk. Propose more money for the health service or reopening youth clubs and frowns break out all round. Can we afford it? But shout infrastructure and cheers go up. The word suggests glamour, chest-beating and “growth”. Reason flies out of the window. The saga of Heathrow’s third runway beggars belief. A foreign-owned private company wants to make more money out of its cramped west London investment. The airlines are sceptical…
- Opposing frame: Fiscal black hole
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Badenoch’s inheritance tax gambit makes no economic sense
The Tory leader’s proposal to slash the tax would shovel £6bn of taxpayer money to the already-wealthy Kemi Badenoch’s inheritance tax gambit is a Conservative classic. After all, it was George Osborne’s high-profile pledge to “take the family home out of inheritance tax” in 2007 that put Gordon Brown off calling a snap general election. In practice, Osborne’s plan involved a £1m threshold for inheritance tax – and given the global financial crisis had blown a hole in the public finances by the time the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition came to power in 2010, it never came to pass. But the promi…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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The National Debt Is A TRICK To Make The Rich RICHER & Keep YOU Poor! w/ Steve Grumbine
Jimmy welcomes Steve Grumbine of Real Progressives to the show to explain Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), arguing that the ...
- MMT by name: MMT by name
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When will politicians turn to MMT?
When will modern monetary theory actually be put into practice? My answer is that politicians will adopt MMT when they ...
- MMT by name: MMT by name
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A Proposal for Modeling Macroeconomics by Integrating Modern Monetary Theory into a Complexity Economics Framework
In this paper, we introduce a novel proposal for modeling macroeconomics that incorporatesthe findings of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) into the developing field of ComplexityEconomics (CE). MMT provides an understanding of the monetary and fiscal institutionswhich frame the behavior of economic actors. CE provides an alternative vision to conventional economics, undermining several standard assumptions, such as perfect rationality,representative agents or equilibrium.In our proposal, the State is a key driver of economic activity in its role as the monopolist ofthe currency, while each econo…
- MMT-consistent idea: Currency issuer
- MMT by name: MMT by name
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Modeling the Economy as a Complex Adaptive System: A Multi-Agent Approach
…ium dynamics, institutional rules, bounded rationality, and adaptive behavior. Particular attention is given to the integration of monetary and fiscal institutions, including insights associated with Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), while distinguishing institutional modeling from adopting MMT as a theoretical conclusion. The paper also discusses methodological requirements for calibration, validation, sensitivity analysis, and policy experiments. The proposed framework emphasizes the study of how macroeconomic regularities emerge, persist, and break down through interactions among heterogeneou…
- MMT by name: MMT by name
The week in numbers
- Media framing: 3 UK news items, down 57% on the week before
- Social conversation: 569 posts and videos, down 18% on the week before
- Academic uptake: 2 scholarly works, down 33% on the week before
- Movement health: 0 public events held, down 100% on the week before
- Attention: 4,820 Wikipedia article views, up 21% on the week before
- Political uptake: 0 speeches in Parliament, no change on the week before